My colleague Toby Sumpter points out that the series of judgments in Isaiah 9:8-21 is following a sacrificial sequence.
First, Yahweh threatens to break down the brick altars and sycamore shrines of Israel. They rebuild them, so He cuts them in pieces, like a sacrificial animal. They keep sinning, and so He lights a sacrificial fire that will burn them. The sacrifice ends with a macabre sacrificial meal, “each of them eats the flesh of his own arm” (v. 20).
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
Rome and the Church in the United States
Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste…
Marriage Annulment and False Mercy
Pope Leo XIV recently told participants in a juridical-pastoral formation course of the Roman Rota that the…
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry
On November 27, 2023, thirty-six-year-old Alissa Golob walked through the doors of the Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic in…
