Isa 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Ver. 18. Remember ye not the former things, ] sc., In comparison of those things I shall now do for you by Cyrus, but especially by Christ, who is that way in the wilderness, and that running rock. 1Co 10:4 Isa 43:14 read more
Isa 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert. Ver. 19. Shall ye not know it? ] Or, Do ye not perceive it? He speaketh of it as present and under view. And rivers in a desert. ] As once when I set the flint abroach. Exo 17:6 Numbers 20:8 ; Numbers 20:11 Psa 105:41 By this way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, understand the doctrine of the gospel, and the comforts of... read more
Isaiah 46:9, Isaiah 65:17, Deuteronomy 7:18, Deuteronomy 8:2, 1 Chronicles 16:12, Jeremiah 16:14, Jeremiah 16:15, Jeremiah 23:7, Jeremiah 23:8, 2 Corinthians 3:10 Reciprocal: Psalms 98:1 - for he Psalms 105:5 - Remember 2 Corinthians 5:17 - old read more
I will do: Isaiah 42:9, Isaiah 48:6, Jeremiah 31:22, Revelation 21:5 I will even: Isaiah 35:6-2 Samuel :, Isaiah 40:3, Isaiah 40:4, Isaiah 48:21, Luke 3:4, Luke 3:5 rivers: Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 48:21, Isaiah 48:22, Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11, Deuteronomy 8:15, Psalms 78:16-Proverbs :, Psalms 105:41 Reciprocal: Numbers 16:30 - make a new thing Deuteronomy 28:28 - General Judges 6:39 - dry 2 Kings 3:17 - Ye shall not Job 38:26 - on the wilderness Psalms 105:5 - Remember Proverbs 21:1 - as... read more
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.Remember not — Tho' your former deliverance out of Egypt was glorious: yet in comparison of that inestimable mercy of sending the Messiah, all your former deliverances are scarce worthy of your remembrance and consideration. read more
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.A new thing — Such a work as was never yet done in the world.Now — The scripture often speaks of things at a great distance of time, as if they were now at hand; to make us sensible of the inconsiderableness of time, and all temporal things, in comparison of God, and eternal things; upon which account it is said, that a thousand years are in God's... read more
Sec. 3. GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL, Isaiah 42:17 to Isaiah 44:5. The controversy with heathendom closed. Its period is from Abraham’s call ideally to the last triumph of Messiah. The message is now again to Israel. It began in Isaiah 1:2, and has been scatteringly resumed ever since. read more
18. Remember ye not An exhortation not to “remember” the fleeing dwellers, or that event, marvellous as that was: a more marvellous one is to come. read more
19-21. A new thing As the former event was common in invasions, sieges, etc., to the unfortunate conquered, the marvel now to be spoken of is the certainly approaching spiritual restoration, not on Jews only, but also on Gentiles. A way in the wilderness… rivers in the desert Certainly the same figures, almost the same language, as in chap. xxv, manifestly used of the great renovation under Messiah, and it seems quite to establish again the same authorship of both compositions. See notes... read more
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The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 43:19
Isaiah 43:19Behold, I will do a new thingThe future better than the pastHow dear to the heart of the Israelites was the remembrance of the nation’s deliverance from Egypt and their journey to the Land of Promise! To those great events the religious teachers of the people continually turned for illustrations and proofs of God’s greatness and power and goodness and love.From this well used and familiar store of imagery the figurative expressions of the text are derived. Dropping the figures put... read more