“ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? ”
To whom then will ye liken God? - Since he is so great, what can resemble him? What form can be made like him? The main idea here intended to be conveyed by the prophet evidently is, that God is...
To whom then (u) will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him? (u) By this he arms them against the idolatry with which they would be tempted in Babylon.
An Expansion of the Text Suggested in Isaiah 40:6-8 . Isaiah 40:12-17 . The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very sm...
18. To whom then have ye likened God? The Jews were in great danger from another temptation; for there was reason to believe that the Assyrians and Babylonians would not have obtained so man...
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
To whom then will ye liken God?— To whom, &c. or what resemblance will ye contrive for him? Isaiah 40:19 . The workman casts an image; and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh...
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? To whom then will ye liken God? - Which of the pagan idols, then, is to be compared to this Almighty God? This passa...
Israel's Restoration from Exile in Babylon On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal leng...
To whom then will ye liken God... — The thought of the infinity of God leads, as in St. Paul’s reasoning ( Acts 17:24-29 ), to the great primary argument against the folly of idolatry. It is charac...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 ; Isaiah 49:1...
the Everlasting God the Giver of Strength Isaiah 40:18-31 Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26 . To the poetic eye of the watche...
We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist...
Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of, because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...
To whom then will ye liken God ?.... There is nothing in the whole creation that can bear any resemblance to him, or he to them; since all nations are as a drop of the bucket, as the small dust of t...
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? Ver. 18. To whom then will ye liken God? ] A sin which the Jews were exceeding prone unto, and would be tempted to, when...
To whom then will ye liken God? This is a proper inference from the foregoing discourse of God's infinite greatness; from whence he takes occasion to show both the folly of those that make mean and...
Vanity of Idols. B. C. 708. 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will y...
This is a proper inference from the foregoing discourse of God's immense and infinite greatness; from whence he taketh occasion to show both the folly of those that make mean and visible representati...
The Greatness Of God Proclaimed ( Isaiah 40:12-31 ). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now reve...
GOD INCOMPARABLE ( For Trinity Sunday. ) Isaiah 40:18 . To whom then will ye liken God? &c. The extreme point which has ever been reached by objectors to the doctrine of the Trinity is the p...
Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best c...
Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon o...
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand? The grandeur of God The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. The prophet’s design in describing the...
PART III . ISAIAH 'S LATER PROPHECIES ( CH . 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION ( Isaiah 40:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Prefatory Remarks THE A...
Jehovah the Supreme Ruler. The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry of the heathen nations guarantee...
1 Samuel 2:2 ; Acts 17:29 ; Colossians 1:15 ; Deuteronomy 33:26 ; Exodus 15:11 ; Exodus 20:4 ; Exodus 8:10 ; Exodus 9:14 ; Hebrews 1:3 ; Isaiah 40:25 ; Isaiah 46:5 ; Isaiah 46:9 ; Jeremi...
To whom — This is a proper inference from the foregoing discourse of God's infinite greatness; from whence he takes occasion to shew both the folly of those that make mean and visible representatio...