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Hope From Your Origins
Commentators unanimously identify the 'rock' and 'pit' as Abraham and Sarah. God is reminding His despairing people that He miraculously created their entire nation from one elderly man and a barren woman. This incredible act from their past serves as a powerful promise: the same God who created them from so little can certainly restore them from exile.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 51:1
18th Century
Theologian
Listen to me - This refers to the God of their fathers, who now addresses them. They are regarded as being in exile and bondage, and as desp…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 51:1
19th Century
Bishop
Look unto the rock. —The implied argument is that the wonder involved in Israel's origin is a ground of faith in its restoration and perpe…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 51:1–2
19th Century
Preacher
This is for your comfort, dear friends. If God could make from Abraham and Sarah so great a nation as Israel, what is there that he cannot do?
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John Calvin
On Isaiah 51:1
16th Century
Theologian
Listen to me, you that follow righteousness. The Prophet now exhorts the Jews not to despair because they are few in number, for they had …
John Gill
On Isaiah 51:1
17th Century
Pastor
Hearken unto me, you that follow after righteousness
After having declared the doom of the wicked, and those that tr…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 51:1–3
17th Century
Minister
It is good for those privileged by the new birth, to consider that they were shapen in sin. This should cause low thoughts of ourselves, and high t…