Behold My Servant: Sermons on Isaiah 52:13-53:12 James Buchanan Although Spurgeon is best remembered

Although Spurgeon is best remembered as a gospel preacher

Although the hoped-for unity between the English and Scottish churches did not materialise

and comforted the aged

Under the not-so-well-disguised pseudonym of ‘John Ploughman’

and so much of what he wrote remains pertinent to the practice of an edifying ministry in the present

Behold My Servant: Sermons on Isaiah 52:13-53:12 James Buchanan Although Spurgeon is best rememberedOf the many sermons which Calvin preached on the Book of Isaiah between July 1556 and August 1559, only eleven were published in his lifetime. Seven of them are newly translated here, all on Isaiahs Fourth Servant Song (Isa. 52: 1353: 12). In a series of stunning scenes which have no parallel in prophetic literature, Isaiah delineates the figure of one who is both sacrificial victim and Gods agent of salvation. In identifying the Servant with Jesus