John Trapp on Isaiah 40:25-26
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Isaiah40:25-26
Ver. 25. To whom then will ye liken me?] See ver. 18, 19.
Cicero.Ver. 26. Lift up your eyes on high] Who is there ſaith an Heathen, that looketh up toward Heaven, and preſently perceiveth not that there is a God? we may well add, and an Almighty God? Why then ſhould the vanities of the Heathen come in competition with Him? or why ſhould Jacob ſay, My way is hid from the Lord, &c. as ver. 27. as if God neglected them, or were weary of helping them, ver. 28.
And behold who hath created theſe things] Without toole or toile, ver. 28. And ſhall the creature be worſhipped rather than the Creatour God bleſſed for ever?
That bringeth out their hoſt by number] As if he had them ſet down in his muſter-roles. Aſtronomers take upon them to number and name the chiefeſt of the ſtarres: reliquas nomenclationi Dei permittere coguntur. Abraham could not number them, Gen. 15.5. and yet Aratus and Eudoxus vainly vaunted, that they had done it.
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