Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 42:8
The Lord — Heb. Jehovah: who have all being in and of myself, and give being to all my creatures. The everlasting, and unchangeable, and omnipotent God, who therefore both can, and will fulfil all my promises.
The Lord — Heb. Jehovah: who have all being in and of myself, and give being to all my creatures. The everlasting, and unchangeable, and omnipotent God, who therefore both can, and will fulfil all my promises.
Verse Isaiah 42:8. _I AM THE LORD_] אני יהוה _ani Yehovah_. This is the famous tetragrammaton, or name of _four letters_, which we write _Jehovah, Yehovah, Yehveh, Yeveh, Jhuh, Javah_, c. The letters...
I AM THE LORD - I am Yahweh. Here is also a change in the address. In the previous verses, God had addressed the Messiah. Here he turns to the people, and assures them that he is the only true God, an...
CHAPTER 42 The True Servant of Jehovah 1. _The Servant of Jehovah and His mission (Isaiah 42:1)_ 2. _His future work among the nations (Isaiah 42:5)_ 3. The future song of redemption glory (Isaiah 42...
ISAIAH 42:8 F. The fulfilment of His earlier predictions, the former things, differentiates Yahweh from the gods of the nations, and guarantees the fulfilment of the prophecies now made....
I AM. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:15). App-92. WILL. NOT GIVE. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:5). ANOTHER: i.e.. strange god. PRAISE. Hebrew. _lullal._ Not confined to the "former" part of...
Jehovah's promise to Israel, based on the preceding description. _God_ in the Heb. _hâ-"çl_, THE GOD, the God who alone is truly God, who has created and sustains all things. _spread forth_ or "made...
_my glory … another_ (Cf. ch. Isaiah 48:11) the glory of true deity, which would be forfeited if Jehovah were unable to predict the future, or if His predictions should fail (Isaiah 42:9)....
THUS SAITH GOD— The prophet here continues the address of God to the Messiah, and that in a very lofty and magnificent manner. _First,_ the Messiah is animated to continue his course with alacrity and...
3. COVENANT, CHAPTER 42 a. SEE MY SERVANT TEXT: Isaiah 42:1-9 1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice...
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. God turns from addressing Messiah to the people. I (AM) THE LORD - Yahweh (H3068); God'...
THE IDEAL SERVANT 1-9. The characteristics and functions of Israel as the ideal Servant of Jehovah. 10-17 A song of praise to Jehovah. 18-25. The deficiencies of the actual Israel, considered as Je...
The *Lord alone controls events. Therefore he alone can announce what will happen. A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V10 Tell the whole world to sing a new song to the *Lord. Tell those who sail the seas to joi...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 42 The *Old Testament calls several people ‘the *Lord’s servant’. Moses is...
I AM THE LORD.... — The prophet grasps the full meaning of the name revealed in Exodus 3:15. It follows from that meaning that God cannot look with indifference on the transfer to the “graven image” o...
אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה ה֣וּא שְׁמִ֑י וּ כְבֹודִי֙ לְ
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 I...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE WORK OF THE LORD'S SERVANT Isaiah 42:1-13 We cannot doubt the application of this passage to our Lord, Matthew 12:18-20. The unobtrusiveness of His life and work was clearly demonstrated in every...
The manifesto now presents the great Servant of Jehovah. His person is first described. His manifestation is announced (verse Isaiah 42:1), His mission is declared (verse Isaiah 42:1), His method is d...
I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my (o) glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (o) I will not permit my glory to be diminished: which I would do if I were not fa...
_Things. They shall not partake of my divinity. Our Saviour was truly God, Philippians ii. 6._...
In the former verses, Jehovah was speaking of Christ; here we find him speaking to Christ: and a most blessed discourse it is. The Lord opens it with a sublime preface, in asserting his own divine aut...
8._I am Jehovah. _Hence infer what is the nature and extent of the disease of unbelief, since the Lord can hardly satisfy himself with any words to express the cure of it. By nature we are prone to di...
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...
I AM THE LORD, THAT IS MY NAME,.... Jehovah, a name expressive of his self-existence, eternity, and immutability; a name by which be made himself known to Israel of old, and which is peculiar to him,...
I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Ver. 8. _I am the Lord._] I, and no heathen petty god, as I have plainly and plentiful...
Isa. 42:8. "I am the Lord Jehovah, that is my name, and my glory I will not give to another, neither my praise to graven images." Concerning this text, these things may be remarked confirming the divi...
_I am the Lord_ Hebrew, _Jehovah;_ who have all being in and of myself, and give being to all my creatures. The everlasting, and unchangeable, and omnipotent God, who therefore both can and will fulfi...
THE TRUE SERVANT OF THE LORD...
I am the Lord, Jehovah, the Unchangeable One; THAT IS MY NAME, Exodus 3:14; AND MY GLORY WILL I NOT GIVE TO ANOTHER, NEITHER MY PRAISE TO GRAVEN IMAGES. The honor of His holy name, over against the fa...
5-12 The work of redemption brings back man to the obedience he owes to God as his Maker. Christ is the light of the world. And by his grace he opens the understandings Satan has blinded, and sets at...
I AM THE LORD, Heb. _Jehovah_; who have all being in and of myself, and give being to all my creatures, and to all my promises, as this name signifies. The everlasting, and unchangeable, and omnipoten...
Isaiah 42:8 LORD H3068 name H8034 glory H3519 give H5414 (H8799) another H312 praise H8416 images H6456...
GOD'S CHARGE TO HIS SERVANT (ISAIAH 42:5). We continue to see here the joint ministries of Israel and their coming King, reaching out and drawing men within the covenant and bringing them light out o...
This book might well be called «the gospel according to Isaiah,» for it is full of evangelical truth. Isaiah 42:1. _Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have pu...
CONTENTS: Christ, servant of Jehovah. Chastening of Israel and the final restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: A day is coming when all who have contradicted and blasphemed the Gospel of...
Isaiah 42:1. _Behold my servant._ In the Chaldaic, the Messiah; and so the whole passage is cited from the LXX. Matthew 12:17. All other applications of the word “servant” are superseded. Christ took...
_I am the Lord:__ THAT IS MY NAME_ Names The name of a thing, provided it is a true and adequate one, denotes the essential nature of that thing. When a chemist has discovered a new substance, he is...
_Behold My Servant_ WHO IS THE “SERVANT OF JEHOVAH”? The following are, in brief, the leading opinions which have been held: (1) Hitzig’s, that the Jewish people in exile is referred to, as disting...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 42:1 This is the first of four Servant Songs, fulfilled in Jesus Christ (see also Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 5
THE ONENESS OF GOD IN REVELATION AND IN NATURE Isaiah 42:5. _Thus saith God the Lord, &c._ Isaiah 42:5 is a description of God; Isaiah 42:6, a declaration of His purposes. The sentiment is that the G...
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 42:1. _Behold My servant, &c._ It is difficult for us who have history, with all its definiteness, to realise the inestimable value of prophecy, notwithstanding its vag...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 42:1 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL PERFORM. There are comparatively few
Now God speaks of another servant. This is His righteous servant, even Jesus Christ. And now Isaiah begins to prophesy concerning Christ, the servant of God. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine el...
Exodus 20:3; Exodus 3:13; Exodus 34:14; Exodus 4:5; Isaiah 48:11;...