Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
Isa 41:26-28 As Isa 41:25 points back to the first charge against the heathen and their gods (Isa 41:2-7), so Isa 41:26-28 point back to the second. Not only did Jehovah manifest Himself as the Universal Ruler in the waking up of Cyrus, but as the Omniscient Ruler also.
Commenting on Isaiah 41:26-28
The absurdity of idolatry is laid bare the moment you try to defend it. Let the heathen produce their best reasons for worshipping their gods, and those reasons will answer themselves. Can the idols tell us anything we did not know? Can they foretell the future? No. Understanding and power mark a true god; the idols possess neither, and so prove themselves to be nothing at all.
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Commenting on Isaiah 41:21-29
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?.... Who of the idols, or of their priests, that have declared things future before they came to pass, or ever predicted such an event as this before mentioned; which, if understood of Cyrus, was an hundred and fifty years before it came to pass; and if of Constantine, near a thousand years: and before time...