“Only the most profound kind of spiritual blindness can keep a man from seeing what Isaiah is doing here. ‘To whom then will ye liken God?’ Isaiah has been comparing God to all kinds of things throughout this chapter [40], and therefore the point of every comparison must be to show that all of them collapse under the weight of eternal glory. They are holy metaphors that make us look up to that which transcends them all. And, as we are glorying in this scriptural language, along come some very pedestrian exegetes, with a poetic ear comparable to about three feet of tin foil, who want us to acknowledge that the text compares God here to a shepherd, and every shepherd they have ever met didn’t know the future” (“The Loveliness of Orthodoxy” in Bound Only Once, pp. 26-27).
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