Today got me listening to Dr. Barker again. She never fails. Driving to therapy and back I heard a new to me lecture and loved it. While making dinner I turned an old one, making this at least the 3rd time I will have listened to it, and finally, when I heard this beauty, I stopped what I was doing and took a note 📝.
Margaret Barker “Theosis and Divinization” at about minute 47:40.
“The Servant King – (emptied himself, as Matthew quoted in his gospel, for the putting away of sin). His role, to restore all things, the means and focus of unity. This is hidden in the verse where we find temple word play and double meaning. Isaiah 53:5 reads as we are familiar with it …. upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.
That can also be read ….. our covenant bond of peace was upon him (his responsibility), and by his joining us together we are healed.
This was the central line of the poem because this was the main role of the servant king. This is the prophecy expounded by Jesus on the road to Emmaus when he explained his suffering and resurrection.”
The 2 most quoted OT text in the NT are Isaiah 53:52 and Psalm 110. https://youtu.be/nOnHDQgIoCU
Breathings 