Who among them has declared these things?
aThe Lord loves him;
bHe shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
aI have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now bthe Lord God and His Spirit
1Have sent Me.”
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
bWho leads you by the way you should go.
bThen your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has bredeemed
His servant Jacob!”
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Isaiah 48:16
Come ye near unto me - After the word kirbu , "draw near," a MS. adds goyim , "O ye nations;" which, as this and the two preceding verses are plainly addressed to the idolatrous nations, reproaching their gods as unable to predict future events, is probably genuine.
Hear ye this "And hear ye this" - A MS. adds the conjunction, vashimu ; and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.
I have not spoken in secret - The Alexandrine copy of the Septuagint adds here, ͅ , "nor in a dark place of the earth," as in Isaiah 45:19. That it stands rightly, or at least stood very early, in this place of the Version of the Septuagint, is highly probable, because it is acknowledged by the Arabic Version, and by the Coptic MS. St. Germain de Prez, Paris, translated likewise from the Septuagint. But whether it should be inserted, as of right belonging to the Hebrew text, may be doubted; for a transcriber of the Greek Version might easily add it by memory from the parallel place; and it is not necessary to the sense.
From the time that it was "Before the time when it began to exist" - An ancient MS. has heyotham , "they began to exist;" and so another had it at first. From the time that the expedition of Cyrus was planned, there was God managing the whole by the economy of his providence.
There am I "I had decreed it" - I take sham for a verb, not an adverb.
And now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me "And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit" -
\ri720 ̔ ͅ ͅ , ; ̔ͅ, ̔, ̔ ̔ , ̔ ̔ .
\ri720 "Who is it that saith in Isaiah, And now the Lord hath sent me and his Spirit? in which, as the expression is ambiguous, is it the Father and the Holy Spirit who have sent Jesus; or the Father, who hath sent both Christ and the Holy Spirit. The latter is the true interpretation." - Origen cont. Cels. lib. 1.
I have kept to the order of the words of the original, on purpose that the ambiguity, which Origen remarks in the Version of the Septuagint, and which is the same in the Hebrew might still remain; and the sense whlch he gives to it, be offered to the reader' s judgment, which is wholly excluded in our translation.
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