Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 40:18
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26 12 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 40:18 liken H1819 (H8762) God H410 likeness H1823 compare H6186 (H8799) Isaiah 40:25
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:18 GOD alone is God. Isaiah sarcastically describes the process of making an idol. ⇐...
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...
PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...
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...
1 Samuel 2:2; Acts 17:29; Colossians 1:15; Deuteronomy 33:26; Exo
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...