Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 43:25
I — I whom thou hast thus provoked. Mine own sake — Not for thy merits, but my own mere goodness.
I — I whom thou hast thus provoked. Mine own sake — Not for thy merits, but my own mere goodness.
Verse Isaiah 43:25. _I_, EVEN _I_, AM _HE_] The original is extremely abrupt: אנכי אנכי הוא _anochi anochi hu_, "I, I, He." Is there any mystery in this form? Does it refer to a plurality of persons i...
I, EVEN I, AM HE - This verse contains a gracious assurance that their sins would be blotted out, and the reason why it would be done. The pronoun ‘I’ is repeated to make it emphatic, as in Isaiah 43:...
CHAPTER 43 Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People 1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals with their...
ISAIAH 43:22 TO ISAIAH 44:5. YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION, NOT PURCHASED BY HIS PEOPLE BUT ENTIRELY OF HIS GRACE, SHALL BRING NEW LIFE TO ISRAEL. It is not that during the exile Israel has assiduously sought...
TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellions. Hebrew. _pasha'_. FOR MINE OWN SAKE. He does not go out of Himself for the reason which flows from grace. WILL NOT REMEMBER. He remembers our infirmities (which man forge...
Jehovah effects this deliverance for His own sake, not in return for any service He has received at the hands of Israel. The argument of the section is difficult to follow, especially in the part whic...
Since Israel has neither brought sacrifices, nor even offered prayer acceptable to Jehovah, He himself must take the initiative in the work of redemption, blotting out its transgressions "for his own...
DISCOURSE: 934 THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S MERCY Isaiah 43:22. Thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offeri...
I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT BLOTTETH OUT— In the 25th verse the prophet declares, in words truly evangelical, that the divine grace alone, freely forgiving transgressions and sins, is the cause of the bless...
d. TO BE PERFECTED TEXT: Isaiah 43:22-28 22 Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt-offerings; neit...
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. I, (EVEN) I - The God against whom your sin is committed, and who alone can and will pardon...
43:25 He (b-5) See Note, ch. 41.4....
THE MISSION OF ISRAEL 1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second and more wonderful exodus is in store f...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 43 Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally neglec...
But the *Lord continued to consider Israel to be his special people. For that reason, he had completely forgiven them....
I, EVEN I... — As in Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 1:18, the analogy with which may be noted as evidence of identity of authorship, the incisive words that prove the guilt of Israel are followed by the fullest o...
אָנֹכִ֨י אָנֹכִ֥י ה֛וּא מֹחֶ֥ה פְשָׁעֶ֖יךָ לְמַעֲנִ֑י...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS Isaiah 43:14-28 Let uptake care lest we thwart God's purpose in our lives. We were made to show forth His praise, Isaiah 43:21; but we must beware of causing a revoking of His...
Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...
What a verse of mercy, grace, and goodness is here! One might justly have been led to expect, after what the Lord had said in the preceding paragraph, that for such baseness and ingratitude, punishmen...
_DIVINE FORGIVENESS_ ‘I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.’ Isaiah 43:25 There is one thing that God always does with sin. He rem...
25._I, I am he. _(170) He concludes the former statement by this exclamation, as if he had said, that he may boast of his right, that he blots out the iniquities of his people, and restores them to fr...
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, EVEN I AM HE, THAT BLOTTETH OUT THY TRANSGRESSIONS FOR MINE OWN SAKE,.... The same with "sins" in the next clause; original sin, and actual sins; which are transgressions of the law of God, of whic...
I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Ver. 25. _I, even I, am he._] _Gratuitam misericordiam diligentissime exprimit._ God dilig...
Isa. 43:21-28. In this prophecy of the great gospel salvation, the freeness of God's grace in it, as not being at all for our righteousness, is largely insisted on here in verse Isaiah 43:21, and also...
_I, even I_ Whom thou hast thus despised, and wearied, and provoked to destroy thee; _am he that blotteth out thy transgressions_ Out of my book, in which they were all written, to be read unto thee,...
I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, by an act of His boundless mercy, in order that His name might not be blasphemed among the heathen, AND WILL NOT REMEMBER THY S...
Israel's Salvation the Work of Jehovah's Mercy...
22-28 Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him. The Master tired not the servants with his commands, but they tired him with disobedience. What were the riches of God's mercy toward them?...
I, EVEN I; I whom thou hast thus despised, and wearied, and provoked to destroy thee. THAT BLOTTETH OUT THY TRANSGRESSIONS OUT OF MY BOOK, in which they were all written, and to be lead unto thee and...
Isaiah 43:25 blots H4229 (H8802) transgressions H6588 remember H2142 (H8799) sins H2403 even I -...
BUT GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE FAILED TO BE HIS TRUE PEOPLE AND MUST FIRST FACE CURSING AND REVILEMENT (ISAIAH 43:22). However, while there is the glorious vision of this future true people of God, Isaiah has...
Isaiah 43:25 There is one thing that God always does with sin. He removes it out of His presence. God cannot dwell with sin. When He casts away the guilty soul into an unapproachable distance, and wh...
Isaiah 43:24 I. Consider the ground on which Israel is reproached. Sweet cane, or calamus, is an aromatic reed which was an exotic in in Palestine, and is chiefly to be found in India. The demand for...
Isaiah 43:21. _This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise._ But A sorrowful «but»; and the strain sinks from a triumphant shout to a doleful lamentation: «But « Isaiah 43:...
Isaiah 43:21. _This people_ That is, God's own people: «This people» Isaiah 43:21. _Have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou has...
Isaiah 43:18. _Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing;_ It is a very profitable thing to remember the things of old; it is greatly benefi...
Isaiah 43:18. _Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wild...
Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine._ I cannot p...
CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...
Isaiah 43:1. _The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob._ Not only in the first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed t...
_I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions_ PARDONING MERCY MADE RADIANT As in olden times jewellers were wont to set their most precious gems in casings of a very inferior nature--and th...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 43:25 I, I AM HE. God declares that he alone can save Israel. FOR MY OWN SAKE. God will help his people even though they do not deserve it....
HOPE FOR THE PENITENT Isaiah 43:24. _Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, &c._ These words are addressed to penitent sinners, mourning before God on account of their transgressions. I joy to bri...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I
But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...
Acts 3:19; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 1:8; Ezekiel 20:14; Ezekiel 20:22;