Verse 1
1. Hearken to me This formula is used when there is a turn from one class of hearers to another.
Ye that follow… ye that seek the Lord The address is to those who fully observe the law, lead just lives, and desire entire approval from Jehovah. Look unto the rock whence…
hewn… hole… whence… digged Abraham, who was a selected block, so to speak, out of the original quarry of mankind. The pit therein was formed in extracting the chosen mass on which to build up the house of Israel. That Sarah is named is theologically of account only to connect with the “rock” figure, Jehovah’s task in raising up a race from this father of much people, whose marriage life with Sarah was long fruitless, and called at length for God’s miracle to bring the desired progeny. The mention of Israel is, too, a poetic help to the parallelism.
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