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Sin Creates a Barrier
Commentators unanimously explain that sin acts like a physical barrier, a "partition wall" or a thick cloud, that divides us from God. This separation is not because God has moved or changed, but because our actions have built a wall that blocks communion with Him and obscures His presence from us.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 59:2
18th Century
Theologian
But your iniquities - This refers to the sins that the prophet specified in the previous chapter and proceeds to specify further in this one…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 59:2
19th Century
Bishop
Have separated — i.e., have become, as it were, a middle wall of partition excluding them from the Divine presen…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 59:2
16th Century
Theologian
But your iniquities have made a separation. The essence of what is said is that they cannot say that God has changed, as if He had deviate…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 59:2
17th Century
Pastor
Ver. 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, &c.] Like a partition wall dividing between them, so …
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 59:1–8
17th Century
Minister
If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not accomplished for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but be…