On page 5 of Vol 4 part 1, Barth has some interesting comments on Isaiah 7 - the whole section is headed "God with us", and of course that is the meaning of the name Emmanuel, the mysterious child of Isiaiah 7:14ff.
"What is important in the text is that when the child is born, that is in less than a year, he will be given the name Emmanuel, because God will have saved his people from the threat of Rezin and Pekah and they will be again rejoicing in his goodness. That is the one side of the sign; But the other is that before the child can distinguish between good and evil, a fgew years later, he will have to eat milk and honey, the food of the nomad..... "
Thoughts which occur while chewing things over. Mainly grass.
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