{"id":88517,"date":"2020-01-12T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88517"},"modified":"2020-01-12T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T21:08:33","slug":"alec-motyer-on-isaiahs-magesterial-description-of-the-ministry-of-the-servant-of-god-isaiah-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88517","title":{"rendered":"Alec Motyer on Isaiah&#8217;s majesterial description of the ministry of the servant of God (Isaiah 42)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe is not dismissive of others: however useless or beyond repair (<i>bruised reed<\/i>), however \u2018past it\u2019 and near extinction (<i>smouldering wick<\/i>) they may seem. The negative statements imply their positive equivalents: he can mend the broken reed, fan into flame the smouldering wick. The former has been internally damaged, the latter lacks the external nourishment of oil. The Servant is competent both to cure and to supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;J Alec Motyer, <b>Isaiah<\/b> (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) [Downer&#8217;s Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1999), p. 260 [emphasis his], cited in this morning&#8217;s sermon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe is not dismissive of others: however useless or beyond repair (bruised reed), however \u2018past it\u2019 and near extinction (smouldering wick) they may seem. The negative statements imply their positive equivalents: he can mend the broken reed, fan into flame<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88517\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88522,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517\/revisions\/88522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}