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Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let them bring them forth - Let the idols, or the worshippers of idols, bring forth the evidence of their divine nature and power. …
19th Century
Anglican
The former things. —Not, as the Authorized Version suggests, the things of the remote past, but those that lie at the head, or beg…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let them bring them forth Not their reasons, as before, but their gods; let them cause them to come nigh, let them a…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Let the islands keep silence before me. Here the prophet begins to strengthen the people for a firm expectation based on the lov…
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