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There was a conservative response to all this by E.W. Hengstenberg, and his disciple J.A. Alexander, but only the latter wrote a commentary on Isaiah. Alexander spends his time doing apologetics, refuting the arguments of the radicals about Isaiah. He does so not with polemics but by using rational arguments of a literary, philological, or historical sort. He really doesn\u2019t offer anything new in terms of the interpretation of the meaning of the text. <\/p>\n

He does not much interact with the church fathers, and he opposes allegorical interpretation or even Grotius\u2019 double sense interpretation of Is. 9.6. He does allow that the servant passages refer to the messiah, and Is. 40-65 give us a preview of the glorious change the church is still awaiting. He assumes the unity of OT and NT, he does not argue for Isaiah as Christian Scripture.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"