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BUT THOU, ISRAEL, ART MY SERVANT - This is an address directly to the
Jews, and is designed to show them, in view of the truths which had
just been urged, that God was their protector and friend. Thos...
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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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But Israel, who in the person of Abraham was summoned from
Mesopotamia, is also a chosen instrument of Yahweh, and has nothing to
fear amid these commotions.
ISAIAH 41:10. RIGHT. RIGHTEOUSNESS: rend...
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MY SERVANT. See note on Isaiah 37:35 for the three "servants" in
Isaiah. This was Israel, as the seed of Abraham, not Cyrus (yet).
Compare verses: Isaiah 41:21.
CHOSEN. See note on Isaiah 1:29.
MY FR...
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Israel is bidden "Fear not," because of its peculiar relation to
Jehovah.
_But thou, Israel_ In opposition to the other peoples (Isaiah 41:1).
Omit "art" with R.V.
_my servant_ Cf. Jeremiah 30:10 f.,...
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BUT THOU, ISRAEL, &C.— The prophet here subjoins to his reproof of
the nations, a consolation to the people of God, drawn from the same
argument, as also he had done in the preceding section. See the...
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b. GOD'S PEOPLE SAVED
TEXT: Isaiah 41:8-13
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But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend,
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thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, an...
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SERVANT] with a special mission, as will hereafter appear. But here
the emphasis is on what God does for Israel, noton what Israel does
for God. FRIEND] cp. 2 Chronicles 20:7; James 2:23. 'The friend...
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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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God calls Abraham his ‘friend’ (see 2 Chronicles 20:7 and James
2:23).
• In the original language, ‘friend’ is ‘one who loves me’.
Anyone who loves God is a member of God’s family. And God himself
co...
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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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BUT THOU, ISRAEL, ART MY SERVANT... — The verse is important as the
first introduction of the servant of the Lord who is so conspicuous
throughout the rest of the book. The idea embodied in the term i...
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וְ אַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל עַבְדִּ֔י
יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר...
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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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BOOK 3
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD
HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy,
and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent
interest, the deliverance of Is...
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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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But thou, Israel, [art] my (i) servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the
seed of Abraham my friend.
(i) And therefore ought not to pollute yourself with the superstition
of the Gentiles....
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I beg the Reader to pause over these blessed verses, and inquire, with
me, whether it be not the Lord Jesus that is here spoken to by
Jehovah, when beholding him as the Husband and Head of his Church...
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8._But thou, Israel, art my servant. _He now shews how unreasonable it
is to confound the people of Israel with the heathen nations, though
all have lifted up a standard and agree in error, and though...
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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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BUT THOU, ISRAEL, ART MY SERVANT,.... As the great spread and success
of the Gospel could not fail of drawing the resentment of the
idolatrous Heathens on those who embraced and professed it, and by
w...
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But thou, Israel, [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed
of Abraham my friend.
Ver. 8. _But thou, Israel, art my servant._] And it was for thy sake,
and for thy settlement, that I have...
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Isa. 41:8. "Chosen." This epithet especially belongs to Jacob rather
than to Isaac or Abraham, because God 'chose' him before Esau his
brother, though they were children of the same parents and twins...
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_But thou, Israel, art my servant_ Thus the Gentiles show themselves
to be the servants of their idols, and own them for their gods: but
thou art my people, and I am and will be thy God. _Jacob, whom...
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The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...
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But thou, Israel, art My servant, as Jehovah, in a section replete
with love and consolation, assures His children, JACOB, WHOM I HAVE
CHOSEN, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, MY FRIEND, His servants, the people...
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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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BUT THOU, ISRAEL, ART MY SERVANT: thus the Gentiles show themselves to
be the servants of their idols, and own them for their god; but thou
art my people, and I am and will be thy God. WHOM I HAVE CHO...
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Isaiah 41:8 Israel H3478 servant H5650 Jacob H3290 chosen H977 (H8804)
descendants H2233 Abraham H85 friend H157 ...
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GOD'S ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS TO HIS PEOPLE, WEAK THOUGH THEY ARE (ISAIAH
41:8).
Isaiah 41:8
“But you Israel, my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The seed of Abraham, the one who loved me.”
He now...
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SERVANT
Three servants of Jehovah are mentioned in Isaiah:
(1) David (Isaiah 37:35).
(2) Israel the nation (Isaiah 41:8); (Isaiah 43:1); ...
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Isaiah 41:8. _But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom l have
chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend._
Let us, for the time being, forget the people to whom this message was
addressed, and see whe...
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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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_But thou, Israel, art My servant_
THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH
It is reasonable to seek the origin of the idea in the first passage
in which the term occurs (Isaiah 41:8).
Here there can be no doubt as t...
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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 41:8 God reminds his people of his commitments
to them. On Israel as the Lord’s SERVANT, see note on 42:1–9.
Mention of God’s having chosen Jacob and of Israel’s status as the...
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TWO KINDS OF HELP
Isaiah 41:6. _They helped every one his neighbour, &c._
Isaiah 41:10. _Fear not; I will help thee, &c._
It is manifestly the intention of the prophet to exhibit the contrast
betwee...
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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 Chronicles 20:7; Deuteronomy 10:15; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy
7:6;...
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THE GOD OF ALL HELP
Isaiah 41:8
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Isaiah is one that lives with us in every daily task and
conflict. Sometimes we think that the Old Testament Scriptures are far
separat...