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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD? - Since he is so great, what can
resemble him? What form can be made like him? The main idea here
intended to be conveyed by the prophet evidently is, that God is great...
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II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66)
Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The
three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon
the Je...
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AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6.
Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is
Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as
very small things. N...
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"To whom will ye liken God?" This question introduces the second
distinct theme of the argument, the folly of idolatry. Although the
prophet has in his mind the difficulties of Jews impressed by the
f...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance
will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image;
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
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b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26
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Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
me...
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To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto
him?
TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD? - Which of the pagan idols, then, is
to be compared to this Almighty God? This passage, if...
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ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON
On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to
their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of
almost equal length...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 40
This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah.
• In CHAPTER...
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A man may try to make his own god. But an *idol cannot live. And it
has no possible use. Its maker even has to fix it firmly in position.
Otherwise it will fall.
• The *Lord God is spirit. He is not...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD... — The thought of the infinity of
God leads, as in St. Paul’s reasoning (Acts 17:24), to the great
primary argument against the folly of idolatry. It is characteristic...
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וְ אֶל ־מִ֖י תְּדַמְּי֣וּן אֵ֑ל וּ מַה
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:18-31
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out
in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
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We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three
divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the
Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66).
The fist el...
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To whom then (u) will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare
to him?
(u) By this he arms them against the idolatry with which they would be
tempted in Babylon....
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Image. Catholics never pretend to represent the Deity, when they
depict the Father as a venerable old man, &c. The do not adore
pictures, as our adversaries would insinuate. If we were disposed to
cav...
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Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of,
because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence
of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...
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18._To whom then have ye likened God? _The Jews were in great danger
from another temptation; for there was reason to believe that the
Assyrians and Babylonians would not have obtained so many victori...
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The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah
extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is,
comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?.... There is nothing in the whole
creation that can bear any resemblance to him, or he to them; since
all nations are as a drop of the bucket, as the small dust of the...
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To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto
him?
Ver. 18. _To whom then will ye liken God?_] A sin which the Jews were
exceeding prone unto, and would be tempted to, when in...
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_To whom then will ye liken God?_ This is a proper inference from the
foregoing discourse of God's infinite greatness; from whence he takes
occasion to show both the folly of those that make mean and...
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To whom, then, will ye liken God? Why try to make comparisons, which,
at best, are so utterly inadequate and futile? OR WHAT LIKENESS WILL
YE COMPARE UNTO HIM? How foolish to try to represent Him by o...
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Jehovah the Supreme Ruler.
The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one
is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry
of the heathen nations guarantees...
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18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God,
that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or
worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrif...
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This is a proper inference from the foregoing discourse of God's
immense and infinite greatness; from whence he taketh occasion to show
both the folly of those that make mean and visible representatio...
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Isaiah 40:18 liken H1819 (H8762) God H410 likeness H1823 compare H6186
(H8799)
Isaiah 40:25
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12).
And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital
passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now
revealed in...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._
«They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you
give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem._
The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy.
They are in the best conditi...
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CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness
of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is
this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are
doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
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_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_
THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of
the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
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_To whom then will ye liken God?_
THE TRINITY
I. THE CARNAL NOTIONS MEN ARE APT TO ENTERTAIN OF GOD.
1. We find that the knowledge of the true God soon faded from the
minds of Noah’s descendants. Th...
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GOD INCOMPARABLE
(_For Trinity Sunday._)
Isaiah 40:18. _To whom then will ye liken God? &c._
The extreme point which has ever been reached by objectors to the
doctrine of the Trinity is the point of...
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION...
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But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we
get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this
new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
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1 Samuel 2:2; Acts 17:29; Colossians 1:15; Deuteronomy 33:26; Exo
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To whom — This is a proper inference from the foregoing discourse of
God's infinite greatness; from whence he takes occasion to shew both
the folly of those that make mean and visible representations...