Isaiah 8-39 Our second section from Isaiah, read during weeks three and four of Great Lent, is quite large. It contains a myriad historical and social circumstances, and various oracles of God directed towards different parties. Here, we can see the prophet speaking the word of God to His people—both the northern and southern kingdoms—asContinue reading “Light from Isaiah 2: Wrath and Mercy”
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Light from the Readable Books 21: Baruch and the New Name
Baruch 4:9-5:9; Isaiah 60:14; 2 Tim 4:8, Rev 21:1-4, 22-26, Isaiah 61:1-4, 9-10. The prophet Jeremiah, because of the hard judgments that he had to proclaim, and because of his book of Lamentations, became the inspiration for the term “Jeremiad” –a mournful complaint or list of woes. Baruch, his secretary, follows his master’s example forContinue reading “Light from the Readable Books 21: Baruch and the New Name”
Edith M. Humphrey 