Hi, its only been couple of months lol =))inho wrote: ↑December 16th, 2016, 3:59 amThis is a sidetrack to this thread, but I'm just curios: can you give a refenrence to anything from Gileadi, where I could read more about this idea?dafty wrote:there are at least couple(7?) servants we are reading about in Isaiah, which theory, even Gileadi seems to be open to these days
If you are still interested one of the references can be found in his Apocaliptic Commentary for Isaiah11. I just found it again and posted it elswhere but thought you may wanna see it as well, so there it goes- In Gileadi's own words:"The identity of the shoot, stock, and branch appears from clues in Isaiah’s olive tree allegory. The words “of Jesse” (vv 1, 10) yield a Davidic and messianic identity for all three individuals. The sprig that is grafted into the shoot—which becomes the fruit-bearing branch—is Jehovah’s end-time servant who represents Israel’s ethnic lineages (vv 10-12; Isaiah 4:2). The shoot into which the sprig is grafted—that does not, in the end, bear fruit—is a servant of Jehovah who represents Israel’s assimilated lineages. The stock is Jehovah, who represents his people Israel as a whole (cf. Isaiah 53:2)."(IsaiahExplained, Apocalyptic Commentary)
thanx