{"id":2024,"date":"2012-08-12T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2012-08-17T08:13:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:13:56","slug":"isaiah-49-clearly-a-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"(Isaiah 49) Clearly a reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And now the Lord says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel is gathered to Him. For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and My God shall be My strength.\u00a0Indeed He says, \u2018It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These verses are clearly a reference to Christ, the Servant of God, who is himself God.\u00a0 As St. Bonaventure said, &#8220;Christ is the lamp that illumines the whole of Scripture&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now the Lord says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel is gathered to Him. For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and My God shall be My strength.\u00a0Indeed He says, \u2018It is too small a thing that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Isaiah 49) Clearly a reference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}