George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 41:26
Just, or "the just one," (Haydock) that we may recognise Cyrus at once. --- Your words. He addresses the idols. You cannot dive into futurity. (Calmet)
Just, or "the just one," (Haydock) that we may recognise Cyrus at once. --- Your words. He addresses the idols. You cannot dive into futurity. (Calmet)
Verse Isaiah 41:26. _YOUR WORD_] אמרתיכם _imrntheychem_; but, instead of this, one of my most ancient MSS. has דבריכם _dibreychem_. The meaning is nearly the same: but in this reading this MS. is sing...
WHO HATH DECLARED FROM THE BEGINNING - The meaning of this passage is, ‘there is no one among the soothsayers, and the worshippers of idols, who has predicted the birth, the character, and the conques...
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...
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...
The general argument is now brought to bear on the particular case of the raising up of Cyrus....
He is _righteous_ HE IS IN THE RIGHT (cf. Exodus 9:27); or, simply, RIGHT! (cf. ch. Isaiah 43:9), although the adj. is always used of persons, except in Deuteronomy 4:8 (of the divine ordinances)....
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...
d. GOOD TIDINGS TEXT: Isaiah 41:21-29 21 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...
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that h...
He is RIGHTEOUS] i.e. has been proved right by the fulfilment of His prophecy....
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...
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...
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...
WHO HATH DECLARED... — The words paint once more the startling suddenness of the conquests of the Persian king. He was to come as a comet or a meteor. None of all the oracles in Assyria or Babylon, or...
מִֽי ־הִגִּ֤יד מֵ רֹאשׁ֙ וְ נֵדָ֔עָה וּ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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,...
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...
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and in times past, that we may say, [He is] righteous? verily, [there is] none that sheweth, verily, [there is] none that declareth, verily, [th...
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...
26._Who hath declared from the beginning? _Again the Lord attacks idols, after having maintained his divinity; for he asks if idolaters can produce anything of a similar nature to support their worshi...
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...
WHO HATH DECLARED FROM THE BEGINNING, THAT WE MAY KNOW?.... Who of the idols, or of their priests, that have declared things future before they came to pass, or ever predicted such an event as this be...
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] none that sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth, yea, [there is] none...
_Who hath declared from the beginning_ Which of your idols could foretel such things as these from the beginning of the world unto this day? _And beforetime_ Before the things come to pass. _That we m...
Who hath declared from the beginning that we may know, proved His divinity by foretelling the future, AND BEFORE-TIME, THAT WE MAY SAY, HE IS RIGHTEOUS, he is in the right? YEA, THERE IS NONE, namely,...
THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
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...
WHO HATH DECLARED FROM THE BEGINNING? which of all your idols did or could foretell such things as this from the beginning of the world unto this day? They never yet did nor can foretell any such thin...
Isaiah 41:26 declared H5046 (H8689) beginning H7218 know H3045 (H8799) times H6440 say H559 (H8799) righteous...
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.”...
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....
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:21 God challenges the false claims of human idols. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:26 God points to the failure of idolatrous religions to foretell the rise of Cyrus. THAT WE MIGHT KNOW... THAT WE MIGHT SAY. “We” refers to God and his people....
SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...
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...
Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 41:23; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 44:7;
Who — Which of your idols could foretel such things as these from the beginning of the world unto this day? Before — time — Before the things come to pass. Righteous — His cause is good: he is a God i...