Day: December 17, 2021
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Shabbat shalom
From our life with nature we can lift out the ‘physical’ world, the world of consistency, from our life with [others] the ‘psychical’ world, the world of sensibility, and from our life with spiritual beings the ‘noetic’ world, the world of validity. But now their transparency, and with it their meaning, has been taken from […]
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Reflecting on Isaiah 9 2-7
What is our response to this beautiful prophetic poetry? This compact, evocative expression of realized eschatology – the already of the prophetic future – and this heart-rending depiction of the good life intended for humanity? [Not to lead the witness at all here …] Do we long for its realization? Notice the gap between consummation […]
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Studying Isaiah 9 2-7
We are studying Isaiah 9:2-7 for Sunday, December 19 – a beautiful expression of the anticipation of future redemption, and the text for one of the more famous choruses from Handel’s Messiah. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are my notes on this text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: The book of Isaiah is a […]
Matters of Interpretation 