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Verse Isaiah 41:4. _WHO HATH WROUGHT AND DONE IT _- "Who hath
performed and made these things"] A word is here lost out of the text.
It is supplied by an ancient MS., אלה _elleh_, "these things;" and...
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WHO HATH WROUGHT AND DONE IT? - By whom has all this been
accomplished? Has it been by the arm of Cyrus? Has it been by human
skill and powers. The design of this question is obvious. It is to
direct...
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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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THE CONQUERING CAREER OF CYRUS CLAIMED BY YAHWEH AS EVIDENCE OF HIS
POWER.
Isaiah 41:5 is probably an insertion made to connect Isaiah 41:4 with
Isaiah 41:6 f. after...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
THE FIRST, AND... LAST. Occurs here and Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12.
Thus, three times in Isaiah, and three times in the Apocalypse
(Revelation 1:17;...
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The answer.
_calling the generations from the beginning_ i.e. guiding the
destinies of the nations from the origins of human history. The clause
should be connected with what follows: it belongs to t...
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WHO RAISED UP THE RIGHTEOUS MAN, &C.— _Who hath raised up the
righteous man from the east; hath called him to attend his steps? Hath
subdued nations at his presence; and given him dominion over kings?...
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2. CONQUEST, CHAPTER 41
a. GENTILES SILENCED
TEXT: Isaiah 41:1-7
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Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their
strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come...
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Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
WHO - else but God?
WROUGHT AND DONE (IT), CALLING THE GENERATIONS FRO...
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41:4 HE. (b-23) Or 'I, THE SAME,' it is really a name of God; see ch.
37.16; Deuteronomy 32:39 ....
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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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The *Lord declares that he is responsible for that foreigner’s
appearance at such a time. The *Lord is using him to carry out a task
for him. It is merely one event in the *Lord’s great plan that
cont...
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I THE LORD... — The words are the utterance of the great thought of
eternity which is the essence of the creed of Israel (comp. Exodus
3:14; Psalms 90:2; Psalms 102:26), and appear in the Alpha and Om...
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מִֽי ־פָעַ֣ל וְ עָשָׂ֔ה קֹרֵ֥א הַ
דֹּרֹ֖ות
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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 LORD UPHOLDETH HIS SERVANT
Isaiah 41:1-16
The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as
summoning the earth to determine whether He or some idol of the
heathen is the true G...
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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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_Beginning. Disposing all things, as the conquests of Cyrus, announced
so long before by name, evince. --- Last. Alpha and Omega, Apocalypse
i. 8., and xxii. 13._...
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In these verses, Jehovah challengeth the inquiry into is sovereignty
and power, that the eternity of his nature, and the graciousness of
purposes in redemption, may be fully proved. And in the instanc...
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_THE FIRST, AND WITH THE LAST_
‘I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am He.’
Isaiah 41:4
I. LOOK AT GOD IN HIS PRIMARY RELATION TO HIS CREATURE.—‘I the
Lord, first.’ Understand clearly that...
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4._Who hath appointed? _Although Isaiah has exhibited in this passage
nothing more than the example of Abraham, yet he undoubtedly intended
to remind the people of all the benefits which the fathers h...
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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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WHO HATH WROUGHT AND DONE IT,.... Contrived and effected it, formed
the scheme, and brought it to pass; namely, raising up the righteous
man from the east, and succeeding him in the manner described:...
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Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I [am] he.
Ver. 4. _Who hath wrought and done it?_] Here the Gentiles should have...
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_Who hath done it?_ Whose work was this but mine? _Calling the
generations_ Calling them out of nothing; giving them breath and
being; disposing and employing them as I see fit: _from the beginning_
A...
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Who hath wrought and done it, undertaking and also finishing the work
which He had set before Him, CALLING THE GENERATIONS FROM THE
BEGINNING? I, THE LORD, THE FIRST AND WITH THE LAST: I AM HE. Jehova...
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THE GLORY OF THE LORD AND THE VANITY OF THE HEATHEN...
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1-9 Can any heathen god raise up one in righteousness, make what use
of him he pleases, and make him victorious over the nations? The Lord
did so with Abraham, or rather, he would do so with Cyrus. S...
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WHO HATH WROUGHT AND DONE IT? whose work was this but mine? CALLING;
either,
1. Calling them out of nothing, giving to them breath and being; or,
2. Calling them to his foot, as he said above, ISAIAH...
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Isaiah 41:4 performed H6466 (H8804) done H6213 (H8804) Calling H7121
(H8802) generations H1755 beginning H7218 LORD...
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GOD'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD (ISAIAH 41:1).
Isaiah 41:1
“Keep silence before me, O coastlands,
And let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near, then let them speak.
Let us...
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Isaiah 41:4
I. Look at God in His primary relation to His creature. "I the Lord,
First." Understand clearly that everything which is was first an idea
in the mind of God. Thence, by a creative act, it...
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Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people
renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us
come near together to judgment._
God invites people to argue...
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God enters into a controversy with those who had fallen into the
worship of idols.
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people
renew their strength: let them come near; then l...
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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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_I the Lord, the first, and with the last_
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I._
LOOK AT GOD IN HIS PRIMARY RELATION TO HIS CREATURE. Understand
clearly that everything which is was first an idea in the mind of God.
Thence, by a cr...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory
and for the benefit of his people.
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:4 CALLING THE GENERATIONS FROM THE
BEGINNING. The rise of Cyrus is evidence of one divine plan governing
historical events from the beginning. On THE FIRST and the last
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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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Acts 15:18; Acts 17:26; Deuteronomy 32:7; Deuteronomy 32:8; Isaiah
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Calling — Them out of nothing, giving them breath and being:
disposing and employing them as he sees fit. From the beginning —
All persons and generations of mankind from the beginning of the
world. I...