{"id":2032,"date":"2012-08-15T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2012-08-17T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:35:07","slug":"isaiah-52-as-i-read-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"(Isaiah 52) As I read it now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Lord has made bare His holy arm In the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God&#8230;.Behold, my servant shall deal prudently. He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.\u00a0Just as many were astonished at you, so his visage was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>So shall he sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at him, for what had not been told them they shall see, and what they had not heard they shall consider.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I used to quote often the tenth verse of Isaiah 52 (the first verse referenced above).\u00a0 But as I read it now, I realize that it was on the cross that the Lord\u00a0bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations.\u00a0 His humiliation, his suffering <em>was<\/em> His glory, and our salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord has made bare His holy arm In the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God&#8230;.Behold, my servant shall deal prudently. He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.\u00a0Just as many were astonished at you, so his visage was marred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Isaiah 52) As I read it now&#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\/2032"}],"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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}