Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 41:3
Pursued — Went on in the pursuit with ease and safety. Even — Through unknown paths.
Pursued — Went on in the pursuit with ease and safety. Even — Through unknown paths.
Verse Isaiah 41:3. AND _PASSED SAFELY _- "He passeth in safety"] The preposition seems to have been omitted in the text by mistake; the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_ seem to have had it in their copies;...
HE PURSUED THEM - When they were driven away. He followed on, and devoted them to discomfiture and ruin. AND PASSED SAFELY - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘In peace.’ That is, he followed them uninjured; they h...
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...
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...
HE PURSUED THEM: i.e. Abraham pursued them unto Dan. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 14:14; Genesis 14:15). App-92. WAY. See note on "path. "Ch. Isaiah 2:3....
The marvellous career of Cyrus is vividly described in highly poetical language. That the reference is to Cyrus (who is first named in ch. Isaiah 44:28) is unquestionable; although the Jewish exegetes...
_by the way … feet_ The easiest and most acceptable rendering is: THE PATH WITH HIS FEET HE DOES NOT TREAD, a picture of the celerity of his movements. Other interpretations, such as: "by a path which...
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?...
2. CONQUEST, CHAPTER 41 a. GENTILES SILENCED TEXT: Isaiah 41:1-7 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come...
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. HE PURSUED THEM ... BY THE WAY (THAT) HE HAD NOT GONE WITH HIS FEET. Cyrus had not visited the regions of the E...
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...
The crisis is about a foreign army commander who is winning battle after battle. The officer’s name does not appear until the last verse of chapter 44. His army is overcoming every country in the area...
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...
HE PURSUED... — Tenses in the present, as before. BY THE WAY THAT HE HAD NOT GONE — i.e., by a new untrodden path. So Tiglath-Pileser and other Assyrian kings continually boast that they had led thei...
יִרְדְּפֵ֖ם יַעֲבֹ֣ור שָׁלֹ֑ום אֹ֥רַח בְּ רַגְלָ֖יו...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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...
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...
_Feet. His march and victories shall be so rapid, like those of Alexander the Great, Daniel viii. 5._...
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...
3._He pursued _them. The Prophet again commends, by the greatness of the victory, the extraordinary kindness of God. It is of the highest importance that he obtained it in a country which was unknown...
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...
HE PURSUED THEM, AND PASSED SAFELY..... Went on in his work, pursued his great design in subduing the souls of men, and bringing them to the obedience of Christ; and though he had so many enemies, he...
He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet. Ver. 3. _He pursued them, and passed in safety._] He got an unbloody victory over the four kings, not los...
_Who raised up_ Into being and power? Was it not my work alone? _The righteous man_ Many expositors understand this of Abraham, who was a person eminently righteous, and was called from the other side...
THE GLORY OF THE LORD AND THE VANITY OF THE HEATHEN...
He pursued them and passed safely, without hindrance; EVEN BY THE WAY THAT HE HAD NOT GONE WITH HIS FEET, that is, the conqueror whom the Lord calls will carry on his pursuit of the Lord's enemies wit...
ISAIAH 41:3safely: _ Heb._ in peace...
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...
HE PURSUED THEM, AND PASSED SAFELY; went on in the pursuit with great ease, and safety, and success. EVEN BY THE WAY THAT HE HAD NOT GONE WITH HIS FEET; which is added as further evidence of God's won...
Isaiah 41:3 pursued H7291 (H8799) passed H5674 (H8799) safely H7965 way H734 gone H935 (H8799) feet...
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...
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...
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...
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 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of 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...
Isaiah 57:2; Job 5:24...