So the carpenter – (See the note at Isaiah 40:19).

Encouraged the goldsmith – Margin, ‘The founder’ (see the note at Isaiah 40…

So the carpenter. —The process is described even more vividly than in Isaiah 40:19. For “the carpenter,” read the caster,…

What a sarcastic description of god-making this is! There is the carpenter, and then the goldsmith to spread the plates of gold over the wood, and …

The workmen encouraged the founder. This verse is explained in various ways, and indeed is somewhat obscure; and even the Jewish writers a…

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith The carpenter, when he had made a wooden image, encouraged and hastened the gol…

Can any pagan god raise up someone in righteousness, make whatever use of him he pleases, and make him victorious over the nations? The Lord did so…

1. Let the islands keep silence before me. Here the prophet begins to strengthen the people for a firm expectation based on the lov…