Sentences with phrase «suffering as a servant»

«Another, more charitable interpretation, suggested to us by a rather excitable lawyer, is that the Samaritan came down from above, had compassion, raised a man up, rescued him at great personal cost, suffered as his servant, paid a debt when the man had no resources of his own and promised to return and address any outstanding problems.

And that He would do this through suffering as a servant, dying on the cross, and then raising from the dead.

Not exact matches

... Isaiah 53:1 The profit foretold that few would receive their Messiah as suffering servant.

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

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 humanitAs 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 humanitas 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 first time as suffering servant: Isaiah 52, 53, Psalm 22... etc..

Just as the «suffering servant» in Isaiah 53 was interpreted in reference to Christ's passion, so Isaiah 63 was an oracle about Christ's Ascension.

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»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»Servant, who was called to be a «covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles» (Isa.

You Jews rejected your own because you thought he was going to come as a mighty warrior the first time when he really came as a 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.

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 tsuffering 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 tSuffering 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.

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.»

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.

When the suffering servant is allowed to go up and be a light for the nations, the servant Israel, redeemed and cleansed, will establish God's sovereignty upon itself and serve as the beginning of His kingdom.

It became more clearly defined in the words of the unknown prophet of Israel, who outlined the role of the true servant of YHWH as one who took suffering upon himself voluntarily:

The «must» in verse 31 is a divine necessity, and it comes not only from Jesus» acute estimate of the forces already set against him but also from his meditation on the great suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53 which he was beginning to see as a clue to his own ministry and life.

Such language is employed in the prophetic description of the Servant of the Lord who died for others; and similarly the Jewish martyrs who suffered in the time of the Maccabees were said to have offered themselves as a sacrifice for the nation.

The suffering servant has sometimes been interpreted as one who receives an influence without making any claim on his own behalf, as one who passively suffers the effect of self - centered or destructive unilateral influence.

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Sufferingsuffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the SufferingSuffering Servant.

The apostolic church, in reflecting on Jesus the Messiah, the Suffering Servant, the Victor, came to understand him preeminently as the Peacemaker between God and humanity and between the divisions within humanity.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

This is that Jesus was heavily indebted to his past, but was no copyist of it; that he spoke as an apocalyptist, but that his apocalypticism was probably distorted and exaggerated in the records of the Synoptics; more important, that he had a prophetic sense of mission as God's suffering servant and agent of redemption; that he deeply respected the law of his fathers, but gave it a new depth of meaning in self - giving love.

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 could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

As Suffering Servant, «the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch iAs a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch ias a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch ias the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

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

Jesus was original not only in taking the Suffering Servant as a type of the Messiah but also in combining this conception with that of the supernatural Son of Man.

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 hsuffering 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 hSuffering 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.

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

One is forced to recognize that the early church, out of its own experience and faith, created its own christological pattern, using elements from both of these conceptions and from other sources also; as, for example, from the Suffering Servant passages of Isaiah.

And perhaps even earlier than the relevance of this priestly conception was observed, the possibility of interpreting the «Suffering Servant» passage in Isaiah 53 as a Messianic prophecy had been discerned: «He was led as a lamb to the slaughter....

As «servants of the servants» they often suffered overwhelmingly demeaning moments at the hands of white women and their sexually abusive husbands.

Furthermore, their exile and sufferings have come not solely as punishment for sin, though they are that; they have befallen the Jews to purify them to act as God's servants in carrying the message of redemption to all the world.

Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one who worships God.»

What really happened was that, after five centuries of neglect, the Isaian passages on the Suffering Servant of the Lord were used by the early Christians as a means of interpreting the necessity and the significance of Christ's unmerited sSuffering Servant of the Lord were used by the early Christians as a means of interpreting the necessity and the significance of Christ's unmerited sufferingsuffering.

The self - emptying of the servant who lived among the people, sharing in their hopes and sufferings, giving his life on the cross for all humanity - his was Christ's way of proclaiming the Good News, and as disciples we are summoned to follow the same way.

It may well be, therefore, that as Dr. James Moffatt puts it, «The suffering Servant conception was organic to the consciousness of Jesus, and that He often regarded His vocation in the light of this supremely suggestive prophecy.»

To be sure, the prophet gave no explanation of such substitutionary sacrifice, offered no theory as to the way in which the sufferings of Yahweh's Servant operated to save the world.

None of this is jesus, none, this is YHWHs son «ISRAEL» the chosen people who has suffered this despise, and hate, until this day from since in Exodus 4:22,23, YHWHs Firstborn Son, who did wrong according to Isaiah 42:16 - 21, preferably vs. 21, of this servant who will, or has converted to the law of YHWH, wholeheartedly, offering his soul for sin, and is, or will be the intercessor for the transgressors, this is in progress now in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, of the last movement before the conterfeiters in Israel are ran out of YHWHs holy land, in Ezekiel 35, this must happen «NEXT» then many will know the truth, of this servant of YHWH Our Righteousness, Isaiah 60, it will be as was in Egypt, but only now it will be coming from out of the north country, as prophesied in Isaiah 43:1 - 9, (future).

Dr. Thomas proposes a new ideology of struggle for both social and ecological justice — a spiritual framework for a post modern holistic humanism based on an understanding of Christ as the Suffering Servant.

The twelve were selected by Jesus as representatives of the tribes of Israel in order to constitute the faithful remnant in its final manifestation as the dying and suffering servant.

Such Messianism, if interpreted outside the framework of the idea of the suffering crucified Servant, would naturally develop a historical dynamism with the idea of Messiah as Conquering King seeking power through aggression.

Then there is the foolishness of lawyers who learn the law so as to break it more skillfully, or of preachers who follow the Suffering Servant while wearing silk and gold robes.

Indeed, for Berrigan the true Jew is ethically pure, a «suffering servant»; and in fact he sees himself as a true Jew in that sense, which also defines Christianity for him.

I believe that a strong case can be made for the contention that Jesus regarded himself as fulfilling the Suffering Servant role of Deutero - Isaiah.