Fifth Sunday after Epiphany; 6 February 2022; Epiphany 5C (RCL); Isaiah 6:1-13; Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11.
Isaiah must have been a little bit of crazy — Here am I, send me. No other prophet ever volunteered for the job, because almost by definition, it won’t go well. This call narrative places Isaiah’s call in the year King Uzziah died, which was really the last good year for the southern kingdom of Judah. Aram and Ephraim began expansionist tendencies almost immediately. And then it was Assyria, and then Babylon. Isaiah narrates his call against this background.
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