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Verse Isaiah 41:25. _I HAVE RAISED UP_ ONE _FROM THE NORTH_] "That
is," says _Kimchi_, "the Messiah. The king of Assyria placed the ten
tribes in Chalach and Chabar by the river Gozan, and in the citi...
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I HAVE RAISED UP ONE - In the previous verses God had shown that the
idols had no power of predicting future events. He stakes, so to
speak, the question of his divinity on that point, and the whole
c...
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CHAPTER 41
Jehovah's Challenge
1. _The address to the islands and the peoples (Isaiah 41:1)_ 2.
_Jehovah's question, Cyrus and his ways predicted (Isaiah 41:2)_ 3.
Nations troubled on account of Cyru...
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YAHWEH'S CHALLENGE TO THE GODS OF THE NATIONS. The nations are bidden
to produce their case and bring forward their champions their idols
(so emend strong reasons). Let the idols show that in days gon...
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RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH: i.e. Cyrus. See App-57. Compare Abraham
(the other type was "from the east", Isaiah 41:2). This prophecy was
made 137 years before its fulfilment. Compare Isaiah 44:28; I...
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The general argument is now brought to bear on the particular case of
the raising up of Cyrus....
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_raised up_ Strictly: STIRRED UP (as in Isaiah 41:2) i.e. "impelled
into activity" (Driver).
_from the north … from the rising of the sun_(cf. Isaiah 41:2)]
Scarcely: "from Media (in the north)" and ...
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I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH— The prophet changes his general
argument into a particular one; repeating and urging more strongly the
example of Cyrus, which he produced at the beginning of this...
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d. GOOD TIDINGS
TEXT: Isaiah 41:21-29
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Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons,
saith the King of Jacob.
22
Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us what shall...
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I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the
rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon
princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
I HAV...
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41:25 princes (d-32) Or 'rulers.' see Note, Ezra 9:2 ....
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Jehovah, on the other hand, has shown His power by raising up Cyrus.
THE NORTH.. THE RISING OF THE SUN] referring to the MedoPersian
empire. PRINCES] i.e. of Babylon, who hold Israel in bondage.
26,...
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CYRUS GOD'S AGENT
1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of
judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order
to carry out His good purposes, while the he...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 41
KNOW WHO REALLY CONTROLS EVENTS
V1 God speaks: ‘You people in distant...
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No *idols can announce what is going to happen. That is something that
only the *Lord God can do.
• See my note on Isaiah 44:9-20.
LORD ~ God’s personal name in the Bible. In the original language,
G...
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I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH. — The north points to Media,
the east to Persia, both of them under the rule of the great
Deliverer.
SHALL HE CALL UPON MY name. — The word admits equally of the i...
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הַעִירֹ֤ותִי מִ צָּפֹון֙ וַ יַּ֔את מִ
מִּזְרַ
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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WHAT THE LORD'S HAND DOES FOR THE NEEDY
Isaiah 41:17-29
Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only;
but directly we learn the divine secret, rivers flow from bare
heights,...
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Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to
utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and
forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island a...
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I have raised up [one] from the north, (t) and he shall come: from the
rising of the sun shall he (u) call upon my name: and he shall come
upon (x) princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth...
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_Sun. Cyrus had a Persian for his father, and a Mede for his mother;
thus uniting both nations, (Calmet) so that he was styled a mule by an
ancient oracle. (Eusebius, præp. ix. 41.) --- These countrie...
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W hat a blessed view is here again given of Christ, and the glorious
events of his coming! It seems as if our God and Father delighted to
be forever calling upon the Church to notice him. The north is...
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25._I have raised him from the north. _He again returns to that
argument; which he had briefly handled, respecting the foreknowledge
and power of God, and shews that to him alone in whom these are fou...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43.
Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised
up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made
of...
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I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH,.... Either one people, or one
person; a mighty king, as the Targum; meaning either Cyrus, who might
be said to come from the north, and from the rising of the sun,...
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Isa. 41:25
Isa. 41:25. "I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come;
from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name; and he shall
come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter...
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_I have raised up_, &c. You neither foreknow, nor can do any thing.
But I do now fore-tel, and will certainly effect, a great revolution
and change in the world, which you shall not be able to hinder;...
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I have raised up one from the North, and he shall come, serving as the
instrument of the Lord; FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN SHALL HE CALL UPON
MY NAME, proclaiming the true God, as Cyrus did when he iss...
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THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
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21-29 There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to
notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols
worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than...
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I HAVE RAISED UP; you neither foreknow nor can do any thing; but I do
now foretell, and will certainly effect, great revolution and change
in the world, which you shall not be able to hinder. _One_; w...
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Isaiah 41:25 up H5782 (H8689) north H6828 come H857 (H8799) rising
H4217 sun H8121 call H7121 ...
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Isaiah 41:25
“I have raised up one from the north, and he is come,
From the rising of the sun one who calls on my name.
And he will come on rulers as on mortar,
And as the potter treads the clay.”...
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CONTENTS: Greatness of God and weakness of man. Admonition to shun
idols and encouragement to trust in God.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah is infinite, eternal and unchangeable....
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Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, oh islands._ Commentators here
refer us to the time of our Saviour's birth, for the isles of Chittim
designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:21 God challenges the false claims of human
idols.
⇐ ⇔...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:25 HE SHALL CALL UPON MY NAME. Cyrus used
diplomatic God-talk (Ezra 1:1) but he was not a believer ...
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SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM
THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.).
EXPOSITION...
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In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter,
God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A
man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But...
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2 Samuel 22:43; Ezra 1:2; Ezra 1:3; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 21:2;...
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Raised — Cyrus, might be said to come from the north, because he was
a Mede by his mother, as he was a Persian by his father; or because a
great part of his army was gathered out of Media, which was n...