The Forgotten Arm: Why the Apostolic Fathers Abandoned a Biblical Metaphor

“And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me…” — Isaiah 63:5 Christology Without the Arm The Hebrew Bible frequently employs embodied metaphors to articulate divine agency. Among these, the phrase “the arm of the LORD” stands as Read.