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The Ultimate Test of Divinity
Commentators agree that this verse issues a direct challenge from God to idols: prove your divinity by accurately predicting the future. This ability is presented as a unique attribute of the one true God. This test decisively separates the God of Israel, who controls and reveals history, from powerless, man-made idols.
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 41:22
18th Century
Theologian
Let them bring them forth - Let the idols, or the worshippers of idols, bring forth the evidence of their divine nature and power. …
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 41:22
19th Century
Bishop
The former things. —Not, as the Authorized Version suggests, the things of the remote past, but those that lie at the head, or beg…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 41:22
16th Century
Theologian
Let them bring them forth. Not only does he attack idolaters, but he bids them bring forward the gods themselves along with them, as if he…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 41:22
17th Century
Pastor
Let them bring them forth
Not their reasons, as before, but their gods; let them cause them to come nigh, let them a…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 41:21–29
17th Century
Minister
Nothing more is needed to show the folly of sin than to consider the reasons given in its defense. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. They…