3 episodes discuss Isaiah 40 — in canonical order, playable from the moment the passage comes up.
Isaiah 40:3 · Bryan Estelle
in Isaiah 40, verse 3, prepare the way. And there’s a constellation of verbs and nouns that are used repeatedly at high points in Isaiah 40 through 55 to express that God is going to do something new now. And so this is what we call the Isianic New Exodus. So this is casting and putting
Isaiah 40:3 · Bryan Estelle
minds both by references to John the Baptist and also in the use of Lord so that then when we come to Luke’s invocation of Isaiah 40 verse 3 and Luke 3 I believe and he changes it up a little bit too and again let me reemphasize my view this is not Pace
Isaiah 40:13 · Jim Cassidy
Exactly. Yeah. So, you know, just talking about some of the, you know, this very relevant to what we were saying earlier about the proof text, right? The first proof text, and I believe people can correct me if I’m wrong here, of course, but I believe it’s the case for both the American version and
Isaiah 40:26 · Will Wood
What’s really interesting is that it’s in this first verse that our allusions to the Old Testament begin. Paul is absolutely saturated with the book of Isaiah here in Ephesians 6, specifically here Isaiah chapter 40, verse 26. You remember Isaiah 40, the Lord comes forth, he says, comfort my people,
Isaiah 40:26 · Will Wood
verse 1. Isaiah 40, verse 26, the Lord comes forth in his strong power, he brings forth his holy people, calling them by name, so that not a single one could possibly go missing. So in Ephesians 6, verse 10, what Paul is doing for us is he begins this passage with a reference to being strengthened b
