Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.
Ver. 26. Lift up your eyes on high.] Who is there, saith a heathen, a 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 Isa 40:27 as if God neglected them, or were weary of helping them. Isa 40:28
And behold who hath created these things.] Without tool or toil. Isa 40:28 And shall the creature be worshipped rather than the Creator, "God blessed for ever."
That bringeth out their host by number.] As if he had them set down in his muster rolls. Astronomers take upon them to number and name the chiefest of the stars; 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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