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Verse Isaiah 51:2. _I CALLED HIM ALONE_] As I have made out of one a
great nation; so, although ye are brought low and minished, yet I can
restore you to happiness, and greatly multiply your number....
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LOOK UNTO ABRAHAM - What was figuratively expressed in the former
verse is here expressed literally. They were directed to remember that
God had taken Abraham and Sarah from a distant land, and that f...
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CHAPTER 51
Jehovah Encourages His Faithful People, the Remnant of Israel
1. _The call to remember Abraham (Isaiah 51:1)_ 2. _Zion to be
comforted (Isaiah 51:3)_ 3. His righteousness near and His arm...
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A HEARTENING CONSOLATION. Yahweh, in words that echo Isaiah 50:4, bids
His people, who seek the victory which ever eludes them, consider
their origin. Abraham was but one; yet He made him a great peop...
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LOOK. Look well: as in Isaiah 51:1. Figure of speech _Hermeneia_, by
which Isaiah 51:2 interprets Isaiah 51:1.
ABRAHAM... SARAH. Reference to Pentateuch ...
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DISCOURSE: 957
CONSOLATION FOR THE AFFLICTED
Isaiah 51:1. Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye
that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and in the
hole of the pit wh...
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HEARKEN TO ME, &C.— The Messiah, about to comfort the true church
remaining in the land of Judea, which consisted of a small number,
called by him a little flock, and whom he had just before marked ou...
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3. RULE, CHAPTER 51
a. TURN TO JUSTICE
TEXT: Isaiah 51:1-8
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Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek
Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of
the...
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Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I
called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
I CALLED HIM ALONE - translate, 'I called him when he was but one'
(). The a...
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51:2 you; (a-11) Or 'that was in travail for you.'...
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1, 2. In the past God made Israel a great nation from a single
ancestor, and that wonderful growth should be an encouragement to the
righteous remnant now to believe in their restoration....
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ALONE] RV 'when he was but one,' i.e. childless....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 51
ABRAHAM WAS YOUR EARLY RELATIVE
V1 ‘Listen to me,’ says the *Lord. ‘You desire to l...
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God gave Abram a new name, ‘Abraham’ (the name means ‘father of
a crowd’). Abraham was already very old and he had no children. But
God promised Abraham that he would still have a very large family (s...
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I CALLED HIM ALONE. — Literally, _as one._ If so great a nation had
sprung from one man (Hebrews 11:12), so would God out of the faithful
remnant once more create a people. (Comp. Ezekiel 33:24, where...
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הַבִּ֨יטוּ֙ אֶל ־אַבְרָהָ֣ם
אֲבִיכֶ֔ם וְ אֶל...
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“AWAKE, O ARM OF JEHOVAH!”
Isaiah 51:1-11
This chapter is extremely dramatic. We are conscious that we are
nearing a revelation of unparalleled sublimity. As we hear the thrice
_Hearken_ in Isaiah 1:...
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Three messages to the faithful immediately follow. The first is a call
to courage (verses Isa 51:1-8), in which they are charged to look back
to Abraham, to look on to the nearness of God's activity,...
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_Alone, and gave him children when he was grown old, and Sara barren.
I can surely save you likewise. (Calmet) --- The example of these
great progenitors is set before the Jews. Thus St. Paul says: Re...
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In opening this Chapter, and listening to the call of God in this
verse, I beg to remind the Reader of the observations at the close of
Isaiah 46:1, for this is but a continuation of the same gracious...
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2._For I called him alone. _This application plainly shews what was
the design of this exhortation of the Prophet. It was to encourage the
hearts of believers to cherish the hope of a better condition...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 51 AND 52.
The application is found in Chapter s 51 and 52 to the end of Verse 12
(Isaiah 52:1-12), and that to the remnant of Israel. In Isaiah 51:13 a
fresh...
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LOOK UNTO ABRAHAM YOUR FATHER,.... Not only the father of the Jewish
nation, but of all them that believe: this explains what is meant by
the rock, in the former verse, who is to be looked unto for im...
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_Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I
called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him._
Ver. 2. _Look unto Abraham your father._] "Look" and again "look."
"Hearke...
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_Hearken unto me_, &c. Here again he addresses his discourse to the
believing and godly Jews, whom he describes as _following after
righteousness_ That is, earnestly desiring and diligently pursuing t...
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Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, that bare you, the
ancestors of the Jewish people and, in a wider sense, of the spiritual
Israel; FOR I CALLED HIM ALONE, when he was but one, AND BLESS...
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THE CERTAINTY OF DELIVERANCE...
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1-3 It is good for those privileged by the new birth, to consider
that they were shapen in sin. This should cause low thoughts of
ourselves, and high thoughts of Divine grace. It is the greatest
comf...
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I CALLED HIM from his own country and kindred to follow me to an
unknown land, where I promised that I would multiply and bless him, as
is particularly explained, GENESIS 12:1. ALONE, Heb. _one_; eith...
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Isaiah 51:2 Look H5027 (H8685) Abraham H85 father H1 Sarah H8283 bore
H2342 (H8787) called H7121 ...
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GOD'S CALL TO HIS TRUE PEOPLE TO CONSIDER ABRAHAM (ISAIAH 51:1).
The first call goes out to ‘listen'. They are to hear His voice as
He reminds them about Abraham, the man of faith, who is the father o...
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CHAPTER 51 EXHORTATIONS TO THE PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO GOD.
We now have here three remarkable calls to faithful Israel, ‘listen'
(Isaiah 51:1) - ‘attend' (Isaiah 51:4) - ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:7).
They have...
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Isaiah 51:1. _Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye
that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the
hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your f...
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CONTENTS: Final redemption of Israel and punishment of oppressors.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Although God's people are called upon to suffer much upon
earth, they have an eternal cause to...
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Isaiah 51:4. _A law shall proceed from me._ The gospel law of liberty
and love is here intended, as in Joel 2:31. No other law ever emanated
from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 51:5. _My righteousness is near._ Ch...
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_Look unto Abraham your father_
ABRAHAM, OR THE CHRISTIAN’S ROCK
I. THE DEALINGS OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM.
1. God “called him alone.” How merciful this call! Our own call to
renounce this world, and to...
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_Hearken to Me_
THE THRICE “HEARKEN”
These paragraphs are exceedingly dramatic.
We become conscious that we are approaching a revelation of
unparalleled sublimity which shall be in Scripture what he...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 51:1 The first incentive for obeying the voice
of the servant is that, if God could make a great nation from one
barren couple (ABRAHAM and SARAH), then he can revive barren Zion...
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A SIGHT FOR DESPONDING CHRISTIAN WORKERS
(_Missionary Sermon._)
Isaiah 51:2. _Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah, &c._
It is habitual with some persons to spy out the dark side of every
qu...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 51:1
AN ADDRESS TO FAITHFUL ISRAEL, SUGGESTING TOPICS OF COMFORT.
The address consists of three nearly equal strophes or stanzas, each
commencing with a call, _Shim'u elai_,...
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Tonight we have a marvelous study as we look at Isaiah, Chapter s
51-55, in which the prophet sees so clearly the suffering and the
rejection of God's provision for man in sending His Son to die for o...
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Ezekiel 33:24; Galatians 3:9; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 13:14; Genes
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Him alone — To follow me to an unknown land: him only of all his
kindred. Increased — Into a vast multitude, when his condition was
desperate in the eye of reason. And therefore God can as easily rais...