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Isaiah 43:1-7
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| Historical References, Commentary and Comparative
Texts:
 | IV.XIV.1, Adversus
Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
| I.9, Paedagogus,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| V.III, The
Refutation of all Heresies (Philosophumena), Hippolytus of Rome.
(c. 225) |
| XII.28, Commentary
on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247) |
| An Address
to Demetrianus -- Cyprian
of Carthage (c. 252) |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "When you see dangers and
conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of
your God, and it will encourage you." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "God's favour and good-will to
his people speak abundant comfort to all believers." |
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| From Wesley's
Notes.
| "I have not only created them
out of nothing, but I have also formed and made them my peculiar
people." |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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Isaiah 43:1-7, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series C, Ralph W.
Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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Isaiah 42:18-43:12, Bible Study by Anthony Bartlett at Preaching Peace. |
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1 Epiphany, Year C: Isaiah 43:1-7, Biblische
Ausbildung, Dr. Stephen L. Cook, Virginia Theological Seminary.
Part 2.
| "The good news of the salvation oracle in Isaiah 43 is
that God directly addresses this experience of exile." |
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"Waters, Rivers, Fire & Flames," Mary Hinkle,
Pilgrim Preaching:
Keeping Company with Biblical Texts and the People Who Hear and Preach Them.
| "A couple of months ago, a Christian said to me
something like, 'Everyone in this life will leave you.' It seemed to me
she was taking the death of others a little too personally ('He didn't die
just in order to leave you.'), but her passion and clarity on this point
were stunning. I imagine a similar sentiment among Isaiah's listeners.
Everyone in this life —including God—will leave you." |
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Isaiah 43:1-7, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the
Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan,
Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
| "One could expect the declaration
of guilt at the end of ch. 42 to be followed by a ‘sentence’ of judgment,
but it is not. As one writer puts it, the logic of grace takes over and
the people are told to ‘fear not’." |
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Isaiah 43:1-7, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure,
Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting
Church in Australia. |
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Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Discussion,
Isaiah 43:1-7. "A place of
conversation regarding Progressive Christianity."
| "Reading
Isaiah emboldens us as we pass through our next water of redemption to
find a glory not fully dreamed. Can you imagine living already redeemed,
already glorious?" |
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Expository Essay,
Isaiah 43:1-7, Dr. William R. Long. |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Who is
Battering Whom?" by Dr. David R. Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory
University.
| "However, in a remarkable
little book entitled, Batter My Heart, Gracia
Fay Ellwood has gathered together most of the violent and abusive
passages in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. I thought I had
read them all but Ellwood showed me some new ones, as well as some
old ones in a new light. God is the abusive husband who goes through
the well-known fight-beat-reconcile cycle. God wounds, heals, and wounds again." |
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"Notes on God's Violence," Catherine Madsen,
Cross Currents,
2001.
| "If it is exhilarating to imagine God
as a female energy, it is also exhilarating to imagine a masculine energy
that does not constrain or inhibit or bind our own energy, but sets it
free. A violence that can be met and mastered, a bad temper that can be
opposed, an unlikeness that is not a negation." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
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| Reviews:
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Review: Francesc Ramis Darder, El triunfo de
Yahve sobre los idolos (Is 40,12-44,23): "En vez de zarzas crecera el cipres".
Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 2002. Review by Leo Laberge in The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004. (Review is in English.) |
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Review:
Jim W. Adams, The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55.
T&T Clark, 2006. Review by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Review of Biblical
Literature, 2008. |
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