Verses 8-9
8, 9. An excellent view, is that of Lowth’s. Opposed to interpreters who follow Vitringa, Lowth supposes the heathen world summoned to a grand convocation to test the claims of Jehovah against idols. The point to decide upon is, that of predictive power, as in Isaiah 41:20-24.
Blind people that have eyes… ears Such heathen as have improved natural faculties according to the light they have, (Romans 1:20,) let them be the judges as to whether idols can predict.
Former things A phrase not quite clear, but probably a list of fulfilled predictions.
Let them bring… their witnesses Their documents attesting such fulfilment, that they may be verified, or that they may be held veracious. If they have not such, let them hear from testimony or documents from the other side, and confess their own failure.
But why is this subject brought up again, having already occupied two chapters? Because the prophet’s soul has not a little fear that tenderness to the supposed obsolete idolatry will be the means of reviving it again. He aspires for the last traces of this old evil to be utterly gone. He aspires for its burial out of sight for ever.
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