Daniel Francis Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) accord://read/NICOT-25#96621 Is all I get when I try to get a citation from the Isaiah 1-39 volume of the NIC... -Dan PS:Previous and next volumes seem to cite properly. Edited December 11, 2016 by Daniel Francis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Francis Posted December 20, 2016 Author Share Posted December 20, 2016 1 The prophet has just depicted Assyria’s swift and sudden destruction. The forest of her pride is nothing but a field of stumps.9 So, too, with God’s people (6:11–13). Both Jacob and Assyria have fallen under the judgment of God. But there is a difference. When Assyria was finally cut down in 609 B.C. by the combined forces of Babylon, Media, and Persia, nothing ever arose from the stumps again. Not so with Israel. From one of her stumps, as we are told in the call narrative (6:13c), the smallest shoot would venture forth. From that helpless shoot (53:1, 2) would come the restoration of that nation and with it the end of the war (9:4 [Eng. 5]) and the establishment of that which the world has sought but never attained, namely, genuine security. Commentators (cf. Calvin) are possibly correct when they suggest that the use of Jesse is an attempt to downplay the house of David (cf. 7:1, 13). Salvation would not come from the pomp and glory of the royal house. Rather, it would come from the promise of one who could create a royal house from a peasant family. Deliverance is God’s gracious gift, an exercise of his faithfulness. Nevertheless, God’s promise to David stands. It is not merely through any of Jesse’s sons that deliverance will come, but specifically through a descendant of David. Both earlier (9:6 [Eng. 7]) and later exegesis (16:5; 55:4–5; Jer. 23:5; 33:15) make the connection explicit.10 It is possible that this use of the term branch provides the ruling interpretation for its use in Zechariah (3:8 and 6:12) and Jeremiah (23:5 and 33:15) where it clearly refers to the Messiah (note also 4:2). accord://read/NICOT-25#96361 12.0.2 still has volume one of Isaiah in NIC not citing properly... -dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guntis Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 And for me Accordance doesn't open accord://read/* links... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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