when he saw The better reading is, because he saw. We had a similar double reading in John 12:17, where -when" is to be preferred. In the Greek the difference is only a single letter, ὅτε and ὅτι. Christ's glory was revealed to Isaiah in a vision, and therefore he spoke of it. The glory of the Son before the Incarnation, when He was -in the form of God" (Philippians 2:6), is to be understood.

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