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Commentaries on Isaiah 43:18

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 43 Is this chapter the Lord comforts his own people, under their afflictions, with many precious promises; asserts his deity against the idols of the nations; promises deliverance from Babylon, and a greater redemption than that; one branch of which is forgiveness of sin; and closes the chapter with a prediction of the destruction of the Jews by the Romans, for their...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Remember ye not the former things,.... Just now referred to, the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and the drowning of Pharaoh and his army in it; for though these things were worthy to be remembered with thankfulness and praise, and to the glory of God, and for the encouragement of faith, yet not in comparison of what was hereafter to be done; meaning, not the redemption...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

The contents of this chapter are much the same with those of the foregoing chapter, looking at the release of the Jews out of their captivity, but looking through that, and beyond that, to the great work of man's redemption by Jesus Christ, and the grace of the gospel, which through him believers partake of. Here are, I. Precious promises made to God's people in their affliction, of his presence...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Do not look merely upon what God has done; but look to the future, and remember that be is able to do the same again.

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Remember ye not the former thing, neither consider the things of old.. For something better is going to be done in the future than all that God has done in the past. He will eclipse all his previous achievements, and outdo the mightiest of his own miracles.

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the thing of old. Behold I will do a new thing; What God has done once, he can do again; but he can also make yet grander and more marvellous displays of his power and grace than he has ever yet given.

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Do not imagine that what God has done in the past will never be repeated. It will be excelled: he will do yet greater things. Of all the mercy and love which God has shown, we may...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; It is a very profitable thing to remember the things of old; it is greatly beneficial to us to study what God did in years and ages long gone by; yet God intends to do for us something in the future that shall eclipse all the past. Especially was this true in Isaiah’s day, for the coming of...