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Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.
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God's Unfathomable Greatness
Commentators explain that Isaiah uses a powerful image to describe God's majesty. Even if all the vast forests of Lebanon were used as firewood and all its animals were sacrificed, it would still be an insignificant offering before the infinite God. This is meant to inspire profound awe and reverence for a God who is beyond all comparison.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And Lebanon - The expression here refers to the trees or the cedars of Lebanon. Thus it is rendered by the Chaldee: ‘And the trees of Lebano…
19th Century
Anglican
Lebanon is not sufficient. —The thought is the same as that of Psalms 50:10-12. Lebanon is chosen as the type of the fore…
Baptist
Is not sufficient to burn,
Think of all the cedars of Lebanon as being ablaze, like some great forest fire, yet not being sufficien…
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16th Century
Protestant
And Lebanon would not be sufficient. That is, “If we must sacrifice to God according to what He deserves, neither the whole of Lebanon, no…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn The trees of it, as the Targum; these are not sufficient to burn a sacrifice w…
All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gav…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Be comforted, be comforted. This is the second principal part of this book, in which the prophet primarily intends to comfort th…
