Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:15
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself - At present, from the nations of the world. O God of Israel, the Savior - While thou revealest thyself to the Israelites and savest them. read more
イザヤ書 45:14-21 Jcb
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:16
They shall be ashamed "They are ashamed" - The reader cannot but observe the sudden transition from the solemn adoration of the secret and mysterious nature of God's counsels in regard to his people, to the spirited denunciation of the confusion of idolaters, and the final destruction of idolatry; contrasted with the salvation of Israel, not from temporal captivity, but the eternal salvation by the Messiah, strongly marked by the repetition and augmentation of the phrase, to the ages of... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:18
He formed it to be inhabited "For he formed it to be inhabited" - An ancient MS. has כי ki before לשבת lashebeth ; and so the ancient Versions. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken tn secret, in a dark place of the earth - In opposition to the manner in which the heathen oracles gave their answers, which were generally delivered from some deep and obscure cavern. Such was the seat of the Cumean Sybil: - Excisum Euboicae latus ingens rupis in antrum . Virg. Aen. 6:42. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:21
Bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together - For יועצו yoatsu or yivvaatsu , let them consult, the Septuagint read ידעו yedau , let them know. but an ancient MS. has יועדו yoedu , let them come together by appointment; which may probably be the true reading. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:14
The labour of Egypt , and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabaeans ; i.e. "the laborious Egyptians, and the traffic-loving Ethiopians and Sabaeans." Their buildings and their husbandry alike justify what is said of the Egyptians, while the very ancient traffic between Egypt and Ethiopia is sufficient ground for the assignment of a commercial character to the Ethiopians and the Sabaeans. Men of stature . (On the tall stature of the Ethiopians, see Herod; Isaiah 3:20 ; and comp. ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:14-17
The conversion of Egypt. In this conversion of the nations to true religion the Divine goodness and providence will be at last recognized. They are represented as going over to Israel of their own accord, and surrendering to her their wealth. And they will be brought at last to the great confession, "Of a truth God is in thee, and there is none beside—no Godhead at all." I. HISTORY AS THE CONCEALMENT OF GOD . So it often appears. The weak are down-trodden; the proud and... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:14-23
The conversion of the Gentiles gradual, but ultimately complete. Three stages in the conversion of the Gentiles seem to be marked—one in Isaiah 45:3 ; another in Isaiah 45:20 ; a third in Isaiah 45:23 . I. THE FIRST STAGE . The nations within a certain moderate radius of Palestine are naturally the first to come in—Egypt and Ethiopia, in Africa; and by parity of reasoning, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor, in Asia; Greece, Italy, and Southern Gaul, in Europe. This was very... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:14-25
THE CONVERSION ' OF THE GENTILES A CONSEQUENCE OF THE RESTORATION AND SALVATION OF ISRAEL . "With the prospect of the release of the exiles is associated," says Delitzsch, "in the prophet's perspective, the prospect of an expansion of the restored Church, through the entrance of the fulness of the Gentiles." Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saba are especially mentioned here, as in Isaiah 43:3 , as among the first to come in ( Isaiah 43:14 , Isaiah 43:15 ). Later on, a more... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:14
The labor of Egypt "The wealth of Egypt" - This seems to relate to the future admission of the Gentiles into the Church of God. Compare Psalm 68:32 ; Psalm 72:10 ; Psalm 60:6-9 . And perhaps these particular nations may be named, by a metonymy common in all poetry, for powerful and wealthy nations in general. See note on Isaiah 60:1 . The Sabeans, men of stature "The Sabeans, tall of stature" - That the Sabeans were of a more majestic appearance than common, is particularly... read more