Introduction
In the fifty-third chapter, the conception of “the Servant of God” culminated in the individual Messiah, who is prophetically pictured as having expiated the sin of his people by the sacrifice of himself. Israel, too, is there pictured as confessing the mistake of having rejected the true conception of Messiah. Israel the spiritual ones, the men and women of true faith in the nation is the Church. In this chapter, Israel is in a state, through repentance and faith, to enter into possession of the glory of the Church redeemed. Hence the sudden burst of the following exhortation.
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