The current elaboration concerns the literary, exegetical and theological analysis of the second song of the Suffering Servant of the Lord. Following a general introduction to the themes of the song, and subsequent literary characterisation Is 49,1-13, the text was subjected to exegetic analysis. Finally, a theological message is exposed. Is 49,1-13 draws a comprehensive image of the Lord. He is pictured as a mighty warrior, who appoints his Servant to carry the fighting and administer justice. God is a Holy Redeemer and Comforter, who embraces the whole earth with His salvation, and particularly those who need it the most. The image of the Servant of the Lord is no less rich. His personage comprises of qualities of the Israel, as well as historical figures; however, He cannot be identified with them fully. The best qualities of the great figures of the history of Israel were the material from which the song’s author painted the image of the Lord’s Servant. The Servant focused the hopeful expectations of the Abraham’s descendants. After all, since the dawn of time, the Lord was announcing the alteration of the man’s life predicament. The alteration was to be made by the figure who we call the Messiah.
All attempts at describing the mystery of salvation are only partial. The idea of salvation, although it is considered a little archaic today, deserves being examined closely again as one of the concepts that belong to absolutely key ones. It appears as a “structure of our construction and of our future”, so it refers to the essence of man and is sort of “prophecy of his existence”. Theology of salvation appears to every man as a promise – or a suggestion – that a man is not alone and that he builds himself, exceeding himself and accepting the fact that God is different. Salvation is always visible where a certain “possibility”, a potentiality emerges in front of a human person; that is, where a being is not completed and has a perspective of being positively different. Salvation is where there is a meaning. Who utters the word “salvation”, says that nothing in his life of in the history of the world is subject to fatalism, nothing is inexcusable, impossible to mend, incurable. This truth testifies that although God has not liberated us from evil yet, He has liberated us from the tyranny of evil. Christ’s salvation shows – and here it is exceptional again – what reality should be like for us and by us, and what it will be like through God’s faithfulness to His promises and through faithfulness of our response.
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