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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mashiach
  • Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:02:20 -0500

Dear Yonah,

YM: If he bore their sickness, then he would have become sick himself.This is simply more
metaphorical language added to the mix of what we are already trying to clarify with normal
language. I do not know how adding metaphor to metaphor helps us understand the text. Jesus did
not "bear" sickness of any kind, even if he (supposedly) healed any sickness. There is
a difference between bearing a sickness, which means that you suffer through it, and healing a
sickness. Doctors do not "bear" the sickness of their patients.




HH: But doctors do not heal people supernaturally, so we don't know what that might involve for someone who did. And the NT quotes this text of Jesus healing people supernaturally:

Matt. 8:16 When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.
Matt. 8:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”

HH: The fact that we cannot explain exactly how someone could carry diseases without becoming sick does not matter because we cannot explain how a person can heal supernaturally either. One incident indicates that power went out of Jesus in a healing:

Luke 8:44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
Luke 8:45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”
Luke 8:46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”

HH: So perhaps Jesus carried sicknesses in the sense that they drained him of some power.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





[Steve Miller] If so, then the nations are the ones speaking. (Some problems
with that.) But then you say later that Isaiah is the one speaking.>

YM: I say that both interpretations have been offered, and this isdefinitely
the case.

[Steve Miller] "clear indicator" & "clear ref"???? "land of the living" is used
many times in Tanach, and it means just what it says. It never means the land of Israel. To be cut off from the
land of the living is to die.>

YM: Here are the references that I find (not having a proper Hebrewconcordance) for
"land of the living" in the Tanakh.
"Land of the Living"ארץ חיים [[ )RC XYYM ]]Psalm 27:13; 52:7Isaiah
53:8Jeremiah 11:19Ezekiel 26:20; 32:23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32
ארץ החיים [[ )RC HCYYM ]]Job 28:13Psalm 142:5Isaiah 38:11
ארצות החיים [[ )RCWT HCYYM ]]Psalm 116:9
Reading through the references, I would have to agree with you that"land of the
living" refers to this world (as opposed to the grave).However, the exile of the
people of Israel from the land wasmetaphorical death for the people, in addition to the
fact thatmultitudes were killed during the battles that led up to exile. To me,this is
a clear metaphor for Israel's exile, but I can see why itwould not be so clear to you
-- even though it is in line with whatthe prophets said.

[Steve Miller] I agree that the speaker is Isaiah in 53:1-10, mostly speaking on behalf of Israel in
general, but in 53:1 on behalf of the prophets. This is the straightforward way to understand it,
and I don't know of any problem with it. But you can't have it both ways. If you say that this
chapter is the gentile nations' remorse over Israel, then you must have the speaker be the gentile
nations and not Isaiah.> The gentile kings cannot be the speaker. In the whole Tanach, since
Israel became a nation, have the gentiles ever said anything intelligent about God? And here they
know the "arm of the Lord"? They know that it "pleased Jehovah to bruise him."?

It says that the arm of HaShem was revealed to them, and this ishighly
possibly refering to the goyische kings, since it is refered toin a previous
verse:
The LORD will lay bare his holy armin the sight of all the nations,and all
the ends of the earth will seethe salvation of our God.(Isaiah 52:10, NIV)
In fact, the entire chapter is talking about Israel's captivity. Ithink the
message is blatantly clear from the context. Chapter 52talks about Israel's
captivity; 53 talks about their treatment andcomportment; and 54 talks about
their return from this captivity. (Irealize that the references go
back-and-forth within the section, butthis is the basic thrust of the text.)
I still am puzzled by the confusion that this text causes when iftaken in
context it makes perfect sense.
שלוםYonah
-- Yonah Mishael ben AvrahamJoplin,
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