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Verse Isaiah 64:4. _FOR SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD_ MEN _HAVE
NOT_ _HEARD_ - "For never have men heard"] St. Paul is generally
supposed to have quoted this passage of Isaiah, Isaiah 64:1; Isaia...
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FOR SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD - This verse is quoted, though
not literally, by the apostle Paul, as illustrating the effects of the
gospel in producing happiness and salvation (see the notes at...
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CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12
The Great Intercessory Prayer
1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah
63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith,
Thou ar...
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ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE
AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding
Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
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SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD. from of old.
MEN HAVE NOT HEARD. Quoted in 1 Corinthians 2:9. Compare Psa 3:19.
NOR. So, some codices, with two early printed editions, Syriac, and
Vulgate. But oth...
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Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of
Jehovah's former Lovingkindness
(1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of
Jehovah's goodness to the nati...
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This difficult passage contains (1) an appeal to that which
distinguishes Jehovah from all other deities: He is the only God who
works for them that wait for Him in the way of righteousness; (2) a
con...
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FOR SINCE THE BEGINNING, &C.— See 1 Corinthians 2:9. The meaning of
the phrase, _Neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee,_ is, "no
one can relate or explain, as no one hath seen, what is known...
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D. RESTLESSNESS OF ZION (cont-'d), Chapter S 63 - 64
4. PENITENTLY VEXED
TEXT: Isaiah 64:1-7
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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
that the mountains might quake a...
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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
FOR SINCE THE B...
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64:4 heard, (e-4) Or 'Even from everlasting, they have not heard.' see
1 Corinthians 2:9 . acteth (f-19) Or 'seen except thee, O God, what he
will do.'...
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1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation
at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
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O GOD, etc.] RV 'a God beside thee, which worketh for him that waiteth
for Him.' St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9) alludes to this passage to
emphasise the fact that human wisdom cannot fathom the working...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 64
This chapter continues the people’s desperate prayer, which began
at...
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NEITHER HATH THE EYE SEEN, O GOD, BESIDE THEE... — The best
commentators are in favour of rendering, _Neither hath the eye seen a
God beside Thee, who will work for him that waiteth for Him._ The
sens...
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_[Isaiah 64:3]_ וּ מֵ עֹולָ֥ם לֹא ־שָׁמְע֖וּ...
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CHAPTER XXV
A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT
Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1
WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been
considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
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A CRY FOR PARDON
Isaiah 64:1-12
_The great past_, Isaiah 64:1-5. We are introduced to the prophet's
oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story
of bygone days, he asks that...
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The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need
of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense
anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will act...
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For since the beginning of the world [men] have not (c) heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee,
[what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
(c) Paul...
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_Thee. Never was deliverance more unexpected or miraculous. St. Paul
quotes this passage, to shew the wisdom manifested in the incarnation,
1 Corinthians ii. 9. It is commonly applied to the glory of...
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Here is a most fervent, animated prayer, in which the Church petitions
her Lord, that by the sovereignty of his grace, and the outpouring of
his Holy Spirit, he would so come forth, and come down in t...
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4._From of old they have not heard. _This verse confirms what has been
already said, that believers do not here ask anything strange or
uncommon, but only that God may shew himself to be to them what...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65.
The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of
God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace,
had been so...
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FOR SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD MEN HAVE NOT HEARD, NOR PERCEIVED
BY THE EAR,.... Not only the things unexpected, undesired, and
undeserved, had been done for the Lord's people of old; but there...
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For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
[what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Ver. 4. _For...
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_When thou didst terrible things_ This may relate to what he did first
in Egypt, and afterward in the wilderness; _which we looked not for_
Such things as we could not have expected; _the mountains fl...
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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived
by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside Thee, any God
beside the one true God, WHAT HE HATH PREPARED FOR HIM THAT WAI...
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V. 1. OH, THAT THOU WOULDEST REND THE HEAVENS, so the suppliant now
begs the Lord, THAT THOU WOULDEST COME DOWN, bursting forth to execute
vengeance, suddenly descending on Thy people's foes, THAT THE...
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SEEN, O GOD, BESIDES THEE, WHAT HE HATH PREPARED FOR HIM:
Or, seen a God beside thee which doeth so for him, etc....
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1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them,
so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of
Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They...
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Whereas there are but three ways whereby men ordinarily come to the
knowledge of a thing, viz. by the ear, either our own hearing, or by
hearsay; and by the eye; and by reason, which the apostle adds,...
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Isaiah 64:4 world H5769 heard H8085 (H8804) ear H238 (H8689) eye H5869
seen H7200 (H8804) God...
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ISAIAH'S HEART CRY TO YAHWEH FOR HIM TO WORK DRAMATICALLY (ISAIAH
64:1).
Isaiah 64:1
‘Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down,
That the mountains might flow down at your presen...
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Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou
wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy
presence, as when the melting fire burneth,_
Or, much better, «as when th...
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CONTENTS: Fear and hope of remnant of Israel in day of vengeance.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: The remnant of Israel in the day of Christ's vengeance
will bewail their sins, thereby justifyi...
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Isaiah 64:1. A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the
prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah.
_Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down._ It is
str...
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_Yet since the beginning of the world men have not heard_
GOD ABSOLUTELY ALONE IN HIS GRACIOUSNESS
“From of old men have not heard, nor perceived, nor has eye seen a
God beside Thee, who acted for h...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 64:1
ISRAEL'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Not content with praying God
to look upon them once more with favour (Isaiah 63:15), Israel now
asks for a theophany, or manifesta
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Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, and that
the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting
fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, and makes thy...
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1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 John 3:1;...
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Besides thee — This is to be applied to all the wonderful works,
that God at all times wrought for his people: and thus they are a plea
with God, that they might well expect such things from him now,...