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Originally set as a generic plea for divine assistance from someone suffering
22:2 “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
22:8-9 “All who see me mock me… if God loves you, let him rescue you.”
22:17-19 “So wasted are my hands and feet… they divide my garments… cast lots…”
22:30 “All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage.”
22:31 “And I will live for the Lord.”
Apostles’ Creed: “He descended into hell.”
Interpretation of Genesis
Interpretation of restoration passages
Problems
P. 55 in textbook
Originally set as metaphor for the Israelites in exile
53:5 But he was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity.
53:12 He surrendered himself to death, was counted among the transgressors, Bore the sins of many, and interceded for the transgressors.
Vicarious suffering – suffering on behalf of others
Originally set as a plea for help from the Davidic king on a bad day, after a lost battle
89:4-5 [God promised] “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: I will make your dynasty stand forever and establish your throne through all ages.”
89:27-28, “He shall cry to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation!’ I myself make him the firstborn, Most High over the kings of the earth.”
89:39-46, “But now you have rejected and spurned, been enraged at your anointed. You renounced the covenant with your servant, defiled his crown in the dust... All who pass through seize plunder; his neighbors deride him... You turned back his sharp sword, did not support him in battle. You brought to an end his splendor, hurled his throne to the ground. You cut short the days of his youth, covered him with shame.”
89:49, “Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?”
Resurrection fulfills messianic promise of Davidic dynasty