John 12:41 makes two claims that together carry the Trinitarian argument: that Isaiah saw Jesus's glory, and that the glory John attributes to Jesus elsewhere in his Gospel is pre-temporal Shekinah possessed παρὰ σοί before creation. Even granting the unitarian referent of Isaiah 52–53, the Servant's glorification read through John 17:5 is restoration of co-possessed eternal glory, not the elevation of a creature.
A supplement to 'The Glory Isaiah Saw,' engaging the strongest published form of the unitarian reading of John 12:41 — taking up its central question: Where did Isaiah speak about him in Isaiah 6?
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