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Verse Isaiah 40:21. _HAVE YE NOT KNOWN_] On this verse _Kimchi_ has a
very interesting comment, an extract of which I subjoin. "The whole
world may be considered as a house built up; _heaven_ its roo...
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HAVE YE NOT KNOWN? - This is evidently an address to the worshippers
of idols, and either designed to be addressed to the Jews themselves
in the times of Manasseh, when idolatry abounded, or to all id...
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II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66)
Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The
three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon
the Je...
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AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6.
Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is
Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as
very small things. N...
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HAVE YE NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_, for emphasis....
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The next section (21 26) again commences with a series of questions
driving home the force of the whole previous argument. The appeal
seems to be still to mankind at large.
_have ye not heard?_Rather...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance
will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image;
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
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b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26
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Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
me...
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Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from
the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the
earth?
HAVE YE NOT KNOW? - who worship idols. The question em...
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40:21 foundation (b-24) In the sense of 'founding it.' lit.
'foundations.'...
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ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON
On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to
their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of
almost equal length...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 40
This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah.
• In CHAPTER...
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It was God who created the world. And God created all that is in the
world (see Genesis chapter 1)....
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הֲ לֹ֤וא תֵֽדְעוּ֙ הֲ לֹ֣וא
תִשְׁמָ֔עוּ הֲ
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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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THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:18-31
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out
in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
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We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three
divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the
Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66).
The fist el...
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Have ye not known? have ye not (y) heard? hath it not been told you
from the beginning? have ye not understood from the (z) foundations of
the earth?
(y) Do you not have the word of God, which plainl...
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_Beginning, by the light of nature, and (Worthington) has not Moses
declared that God alone created the world? (Haydock) --- His power and
goodness herein convince us that he will not deny grace.
(Wor...
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Who but must feel humbled to the very dust of the earth, while
reading, in these verses, the sad state to which man is reduced by the
fall? We see man so prone to idolatry, that if the poor creature b...
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21._Do ye not know? _After having ridiculed the stupidity and madness
of the Gentiles, the Prophet turns to the Jews; for we are all prone
to superstition, and thus we easily fall into it when any exa...
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The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah
extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is,
comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
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HAVE YE NOT KNOWN?] This is the speech of the prophet, directed to the
idolaters, appealing to their own natural knowledge, who, from the
light of nature, might know that idols were nothing, had no di...
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_Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from
the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the
earth?_
Ver. 21. _Have ye not known? have ye not heard?_] Both...
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_Have ye not known_ Jehovah to be the only true God, the Maker and
Governor of the world, and all its inhabitants? How can ye be ignorant
of so evident a truth? He addresses his speech to the idolatro...
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Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? The facts which the prophet has
in mind could and should be well known to all whom the prophet's words
might reach. HATH IT NOT BEEN TOLD YOU FROM THE BEGINNING?...
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Jehovah the Supreme Ruler.
The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one
is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry
of the heathen nations guarantees...
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18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God,
that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or
worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrif...
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HAVE YE NOT KNOWN, to wit, God to be the only true God, the Maker and
Governor of the world, and all its inhabitants? how can you be
ignorant of so evident a truth? He addresseth his speech to the
ido...
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Isaiah 40:21 known H3045 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8799) told H5046
(H8717) beginning H7218 understood H995 ...
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12).
And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital
passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now
revealed in...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._
«They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you
give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem._
The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy.
They are in the best conditi...
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CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness
of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is
this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are
doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
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_Have ye not known?_
ISAIAH’S QUESTIONS
His sharp questions are as hooks to draw from his hearers’ hearts
their timid and starved convictions, that he may nourish these upon
the sacramental glories...
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_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_
THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of
the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION...
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But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we
get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this
new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
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Acts 14:17; Isaiah 27:11; Isaiah 44:20; Isaiah 46:8; Jeremiah 10:8;...
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Known — God to be the only true God, the maker and governor of the
world....