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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
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Hope from God's History
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is a direct call to find hope in God's past actions. By pointing to Abraham and Sarah, God reminds His people that He created a great nation from a single, childless man. This historical proof of God's power to multiply is meant to encourage the small, exiled remnant that He can restore them as well.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Look unto Abraham - What was figuratively expressed in the former verse is here expressed literally. They were directed to remember…
19th Century
Anglican
I called him alone. —Literally, as one. If so great a nation had sprung from one man (Hebrews 11:12), so would God ou…
Baptist
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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16th Century
Protestant
For I called him alone. This application plainly shows what was the purpose of this exhortation from the Prophet: to encourage the hearts …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Look to Abraham your fatherNot only the father of the Jewish nation, but of all them that believe: this explains wha…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Give ear to me, you that follow justice. Here he addresses the second obstacle to their liberation, which might be assumed from …
