Isaiah 8 Footnotes

8:14 Paul (Rm 9:32-33) and Peter (1Pt 2:6-8) applied this verse, together with Is 28:16, to Jesus Christ, who was rejected as Messiah by many of those to whom he came. Some interpreters object that their use of these passages is not consistent with what Isaiah meant when he spoke to his Jerusalem audience. Isaiah was speaking about Israel’s attitude toward the Lord. If, in the NT perspective, Jesus is the revelation of the Father and his activity (e.g., Jn 1:1; 14:9; 2Co 5:19; Php 2:6), then what Isaiah said about God could also be taken in a messianic sense, as applicable to Jesus.