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It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, As Yahweh has said, And among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
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Commentators stress that "calling on the name of the Lord" is not a magic formula but a deep act of worship. It involves genuine faith, trust, and a life of obedience based on who God truly is. As Albert Barnes notes, it implies right faith, right trust, right devotion, and right life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord – To call upon the name of the Lord is to worship Him as He is, depending upon Him. Th…
19th Century
Anglican
Deliverance.— Or, perhaps better, those that escape. St. Paul quotes from this verse (Romans 10:13), transfer…
16th Century
Protestant
We said yesterday that the Prophet denounced future calamities so that he might thus stimulate men, distressed by many evils, to seek God. We indee…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it shall come to pass, [that] whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered
The promise began to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, and it was continued in the converting grace and mi…
