E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:21
This People, &c. For Israel (as Birks puts it) "is the keystone of the whole arch of promise". read more
Isaiah 43
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:22
called upon Me. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6 , for all that has to do with worship, as developed in verses: Isaiah 43:23 , Isaiah 43:24 . been weary of Me. Note the emphasis is on "Me" in these verses (compare Micah 6:3 .Malachi 1:13; Malachi 1:13 ). read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:23
Thou hast not brought Me, &c. These verses are quite opposed to the alleged indifference of the prophets to the Divine ritual. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:24
but. Note the solemn antithesis. made Me to serve. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect, of the verb), for the judicial consequences of their sins. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:25
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 forgets. Psalms 103:14 ), but will forget our sins (which man remembers). remember. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:26
declare = recount [thy works, or sins]. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:27
Thy first father: i.e. Jacob, as stated in the next verse (compare Deuteronomy 26:5 .Ezekiel 16:3 , Ezekiel 16:45 ). read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:28
princes = priests, whose great duty it was to "teach" the people the Law and Word of God (see notes on Deuteronomy 17:11 ; Deuteronomy 33:10 ). Jacob . . . Israel. Including the whole Nation: the subject of this prophecy concerning Jehovah's "servant". read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 43:1
There is a dramatic change in this chapter from the severe rebukes and denunciations of Israel in Isaiah 42, where Israel appears as the blind and deaf servant, to the glorious comfort promised the people of God in this chapter. Many Christians have made this chapter their favorite of the whole prophecy of Isaiah.However, it should never be overlooked that the blind and deaf servant (the physical Israel, the old Israel, the fleshly Israel) also appears in the last two verses of this chapter.... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 43:20
I give waters, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:6 ). read more