Ask Pete I’m reading Isaiah. Can you explain how Isaiah can write a dreadful line like 24:1 and then one chapter later write the beautifully inclusive 25: 6-9?

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2 years ago

Bruce

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I recognize that the whole Bible is paradoxical in this same way. We get both heaven and hell in doses that are unreconcilable. I’m comfortable with the idea that the Bible doesn’t give us answers, but instead gives us questions to ponder as we journey. But how does Isaiah himself become so paradoxical within just a few verses? What is happening there? He had to know what he was doing. How was that good literary technique? Thank you