For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Ver. 7. For the Lord God will help me.] And again, Isaiah 50:9, "Behold, the Lord God will help me." This lively hope held head above water "Hope" we also "perfectly - or, to the end - for the grace that is to be brought unto us at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 1Pe 1:13
Therefore shall I not be confounded.] Heb., Ashamed, notwithstanding the shame they seek to cast upon me. Isa 50:6 I am as marble, to which no dirt will stick.
Therefore I have set my face as a flint.] Or, As steel (which is medulla slve nucleus ferri, saith Pliny). I have steeled my countenance. as Luk 9:51 See Ezekiel 3:8,9. So did Luther when he resolved to appear at Worms before the emperor, though he were sure to encounter as many devils there as were tiles upon the houses. a See Acts 21:13 .
a Acts and Mon., 776.