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Isaiah 53 describes the servant as despised and rejected. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this rejection in a man who is insulted and beaten yet also worshipped, placing suffering beside a troubling response in which Azazel himself pays homage.
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1000+ CE
Isaiah 53:3
Hebrew Bible
2 He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him. 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant. 4 But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. 5 He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed.
Apocalypse of Abraham 29:5
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And He said: "I have ordained twelve years of this ungodly Age to rule among the heathen and in your seed; and until the end of the times it shall be as you saw. 3 And reckon and understand and look into the picture." 4 And I [looked and] saw a man going out from the left side of the heathen; and there went out men and women and children, from the side of the heathen, many hosts, and worshipped him. 5 And while I still looked there came out from the right side [many], and some insulted that man, while some struck him; others, however, worshipped him. 6 [And] I saw how these worshipped him, and Azazel ran and worshipped him, and having kissed his face he turned and stood behind him.
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Notes and References
“... Cf. Is. liii. 3. ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 50) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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