John D. Brey
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Through the lens of Biology, I see 'Grafting' as synonymous with Gene Splicing and the 'Word of God' as synonymous with Nitrogenous Bases.
Throughout Isaiah's prophesies he uses plant metaphors as though they apply to human biology. Through selective breeding, the gardener tries to develop as near perfect a plant as possible. Once he gets what he wants, that plant becomes his "cultivar." Take the "Red Delicious" apple. The Red Delicious eaten today is an exact clone of the first of its kind developed through selective breeding in the 19th century.
Once a cultivar is developed, the plant is cloned from there on out. To allow it to mix sexually with other varieties would destroy the traits carefully cultivated. To clone a cultivar, a branch is removed from the cultivar, and made to grow through vegetative propagation techniques apart from sexual-mixing. A branch produced through vegetative propagation can be grafted onto a root from an inferior tree. If a branch from a Red Delicious is grafted onto the root of a highly inferior plant, the gardener will still get a Red Delicious from the grafted branch since the branch and not the root determines the fruit. The root adds nothing to the fruit; it merely feeds the branch grafted onto it. No matter how inferior the fruit from the root that the cultivar/branch is grafted onto, the cultivar branch/graft loses nothing of its desired traits. The root doesn't affect the fruit from the branch.
Isaiah realizes these things and implies that God is the unique gardener who started out from the get-go with his perfect cultivar: ha-adam (the first human) ----no selective breeding took place. And though you have to delve deep into the Hebrew to suss these things out, the second human was cloned from the first so that the first and second human were identical twins, perfect cultivars from the hand of God. Had the human race continued producing vegetatively from the perfect cultivar, mankind would be a clonal-colony of perfect human beings.
Unfortunately, the third human wasn't a clone of the first or the second. The ******* Cain was the first product of sexual breeding rather than clonal/vegetative reproduction. Whereas the second human is a perfect clone of the first, the third is nothing of the sort. After a branch was taken from the first human to clone the second, the serpent grafted his own branch onto God's perfect root. In complete contradistinction to the good gardener (who in the worst case grafts his cultivar onto and inferior root ---still producing his cultivated fruit), the serpent took a superior root, a perfect root, and grafted on his inferior cultivar; the branch created in his own image: the phallus. With the serpent's branch came a new form of gardening, sexual-mixing.
Isaiah's giant aha moment came when he realized that since the fruit of a branch grafted onto a different root still produces the fruit of the grafted branch, all of humanity are the product of the serpent's graft (literally and figuratively) such that we're all fruit from the serpent's ******* branch (the phallus). Cain being the first fruit of that branch. Isaiah's great excitement comes from knowing that even as the fruit from a branch grafted onto a different root is affected in no way from the root, neither is the root affected by the grafting on of a different branch.
If the grafted branch is cut down to the stump, the root can send out what's called a "basal-shoot," which doesn't share the DNA of the grafted branch, but the DNA of the original root.
Isaiah realizes that that's what brit milah, ritual circumcision, is all about; cutting down the branch (the phallus) grafted onto God's original root, ha-adam, God's original cultivar (root and branch), the pre-lapse human. Once the grafted branch is cut to the stump, the human body can send out a "shoot" נצר (nazar) from the root, and not from the foreign branch. Isaiah knows that when a Jewish male is born as a "nazar" נצר (the Hebrew word for a "basal-shoot" growing from the root of a tree after the foreign branch is coppiced to the ground), that person will be the first person in the human race to be born a true clone of the original two human beings as they existed prior to having the serpent's branch grafted onto one of them.
For this Jewish male to be born a nazar, or nazarene, a shoot נצר from the original root, a shoot נצר from God's original cultivar, he must sprout out of the human body after the grafted branch is cut off (brit milah); he must grow out of the human body as a clone, from the original root, through parthenogenesis, vegetative reproduction, virgin birth, and not from the sexual form of reproduction come from the serpent's branch being grafted onto God's perfect root. When and if this vegetatively-produced male is ever born, he will be the true circumcision in contradistinction to "ritual" circumcision; circumcision being symbolic-coppicing so that the original root created by God will send out the Shoot, the Branch, the Nazar-ene, who will save the whole human race from the serpent, and from their first birth, assuming they're up for being born again.
John