Sentences with phrase «of suffering servants»

Baldwin's comparison of the sale of Joseph to other examples of suffering servants (Isaiah 53: 3 - 6; Zechariah 11:12 - 13, 13:7 - 9) echoes some of the typology used in early Christian interpretation and it is good not to overlook this part of the history of exegesis.

In this situation it should come as no surprise that not many volunteers have come forth to play the role of suffering servants.

It may be, especially as the Greek word pais can mean both «son» and «servant», that the title was a way of interpreting Jesus» ministry in the light of passages in Isaiah which speak of a Suffering Servant, who was called to be a «covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles» (Isa.

They know instead that true pastoral care helps to unify our suffering with that of the Suffering Servant, who redeems us, and sanctifies us, and strengthens us to suffer with dignity in truth, as Christ himself suffered silently, conquering death upon the cross.

First, your heritage has its own explications of the role of the Suffering Servant in Korean history.

Only the acceptance of the mission of the Suffering Servant, i.e., mission in Christ's way, and a theology of kenosis or self emptying, will enable us to cross a frontier.

Will the Korean churches be willing to place their financial resources in a common pool to which all may have access, so that you may indeed be free to follow in the foot steps of the Suffering Servant, Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour?

Such a task can not be undertaken except in the way of the Suffering Servant, because missionaries are not soldiers.

Reproached for altering the figure of the «holy Yehudi» in For the Sake of Heaven according to a conscious or unconscious Christian tendency, Buber answers that there is not one single trait of this figure which is not already to be found in the tradition of the suffering servant.

If the meek are understood to be living embodiments of relational power, if they are in fact members of a suffering servant people, then the proposition is surely interesting.

In this regard it appears justifiable to say that no obvious bond still connects the notion of the suffering servant (Ebed Jahweh) to that of the witness.

John Bright, The Kingdom of God, pp. 208 - 14, regards Jesus as definitely believing himself to be the Messiah, but in the pattern and concept of the Suffering Servant.

It was in a sequence of servant poems, and in particular his portrayal of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53, that he set forth at the same time his high hopes for his people and the mode by which God would bring this to pass.

Whatever the prophet meant by his description of the suffering servant of the Lord, what seemed obvious to Jesus» disciples may very well have been equally so for him.

The quotation is from the description of the suffering servant of the Lord in the fifty - third chapter of Isaiah (v 4), where more than anywhere else in the Old Testament the early church saw a portrait of Jesus.

But soon it was realized — partly as a result of the remembrance of Jesus» own utter humility and denial of self, particularly as associated with his awful suffering and his uncomplaining acceptance of it as the will of God; partly under the influence of a fresh reading of the Suffering Servant passages in Isaiah; (commented on earlier) and, not least, as a consequence of the community's own experience of the forgiveness of sins — soon, I say, it was realized that the whole significance of Jesus» earthly life culminated in his death.

We see it foreshadowed in Second Isaiah's portrayal of the Suffering Servant as the true Messiah.

Many Christian scholars hold that Jesus interpreted his role [and the meaning of messiahship] in terms of the Suffering Servant pattern.

The story of the Suffering Servant under the Babylonian Empire appears in the Servant song of Isaiah 53.

The idea of the Suffering Servant, a dominant theme in Hebraic Christian theology, stresses that the one who comes ultimately to give life and hope to humankind is the one who suffers for humankind, who gives himself for that humanity.

Here Jesus is distinctly seen in terms of the Suffering Servant, and the Suffering Servant, however mysterious a figure he may be, was one whose vicarious sufferings were for the sake of the healing of his people.

The very presentation of the Suffering Servant, therefore, charged the people with guilt and faced them with shame.

One of the most impressive themes developed by Second Isaiah is that of the suffering servant.

Is that a reflection of the Christian hope that was brought about by and through the acts of the Suffering Servant?

Those who follow Jesus will have to take this ministry seriously since this is the ministry of a suffering servant.

Not exact matches

The job of civil servants is to speak truth to power, and yes occasionally suffer the consequences.

Jesus understood that the Messianic King of Psalm 2 was also the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 — a sacrificial lamb who would be rejected and cut off from the land of the living.

Also, Isaiah chapter 53 does not refer to an individual as the «suffering servant», but to all of Israel (the people) as a unit.

He begins again to tell the story of God's plan to restore all of creation, from the covenant with Abraham to the exodus from Egypt, from Ezekiel's valley of dry bones to Isaiah's suffering servant.

By the time he applied the term «Son of man» to the suffering servant prophecy, «the Son of man» must have meant to him practically «I.» Obviously all this can not be proved; other possibilities must be recognized.

Moltmann's diagnosis, then, is twofold: (1) it seems wrong to play or dance while others are suffering, and (2) play has too often become the servant of the oppressor.

But the servant - form is no mere outer garment, and therefore the God must suffer all things, endure all things, make experience of all things.

As never before in the history of the Christian consciousness, the modern Jew has appeared and has been real as the suffering servant, the broken one in whose agony the world can behold and know the pain of humanity.

On a wave of popular youth appeal, Corbyn as suffering servant and capitalist reformer has captured the imagination of those seeking a new political future.

The suffering servant / Savior passage of Isaiah 53 does not explicitly teach His resurrection, but does speak of His bearing the sin of many and making intercession for the transgressors (Isa53: 12).

When Christians searched the Old Testament for texts bearing on the Resurrection they would be struck by Psalm 16:10: «Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy loyal servant suffer corruption», This prophecy was a powerful weapon in the armory of Christian apologetic.

We can not corrupt the memory of those faithful servants of God like Paul whose suffering is part of a witness to the gospel.

Hello, hope for every long - suffering, imperfect, demon - fighting, disability - challenged, stage - frightened, anxiety - ridden, on - the - verge - of - a-pity-party servant of the gospel who ever lived.

There is the strange figure of the Servant in Second Isaiah whose suffering, even if it is not the suffering of God, is the way to redemption.

We have said that the Hebrew faith does not come to a clear resolution of the question of how the suffering either of God or the Servant enters into the redemptive work of love.

of Jesus being born years later... no rule saying it could not have happened.Jesus perfectly described the Suffering Servant..

Pathil says, that the vision of the church as «the herald and servant of the Kingdom of God» would be a much more appealing model, since it contains a two-fold relativisation of church, one in the suffering servant relation to the world and the other in its relation to the Kingdom to come.

But he also thought of himself as the Suffering Servant of God, a Messiah who would conquer not by political power, as many of his contemporaries hoped, or by dramatic and spectacular intervention, as the apocalyptists expected, but by the long, slow process of winning men to faith in God and to the love of God and one another.

I challenge all readers to read the chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author of Isaiah is referring to the nation of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.

As the failure of the judge leads to the king and the failure of the king to the prophet, so the failure of the prophet in his opposition to the king leads to the conception of two new types of leader who will set the dialogue aright — the Messiah of YHVH and the «suffering servant of the Lord.»

This prophet and those associated with him saw that the call of God to Israel was not to recover the glory of kings David and Solomon but to be a Suffering Servant among the nations.

The Messianic mystery is based on a real hiddenness which penetrates to the innermost existence and is essential to the servant's work of suffering.

«Whosoever accomplishes in Israel the active suffering of Israel, he is the servant, and he is Israel, in whom YHVH «glorifies Himself.»»

In so far as Israel's great suffering in the dispersion was willingly and actively borne, it is interpreted in the image of the servant.

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