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The scripture for today is from the portion of Isaiah which
scholars know as Deutero-Isaiah, or Second Isaiah -- chapters 40
to 55. Those chapters certainly were not written by the eighth
century B.C.E. prophet whose name it bears, but rather by an
anonymous observer of the events in the closing years of
Babylonian rule, and who interpreted the meaning of those events
to the Jewish exiles in Babylonia. A momentous event stirred him
to prophesy to the captives, and that event was the rise to power
scholars know as Deutero-Isaiah, or Second Isaiah -- chapters 40
to 55. Those chapters certainly were not written by the eighth
century B.C.E. prophet whose name it bears, but rather by an
anonymous observer of the events in the closing years of
Babylonian rule, and who interpreted the meaning of those events
to the Jewish exiles in Babylonia. A momentous event stirred him
to prophesy to the captives, and that event was the rise to power
