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FINAL APPEAL
conqueror of Babylon). He (the Lord) will do his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
Chaldeans/' (15.) " I even I, have spoken ; yea, I
have called him, (Cyrus,) I have brought him, and
he shall make his way prosperous." (16J " Come
ye near unto me, (says the Prophet,) hear ye this,
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there am I : (that is, from the
first time of these events :) and now the Lord God and
his Spirit hath sent me.'' (17-) Expressions similar to
the phrase, "From the time that it was, there am I," are
often used by the Prophets. Vide Jer. i. 5 : "And before
thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee,
and I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nations," And
so Isaiah xlix. 1. No one, I presume, that ever read,
even with common attention, the book of Isaiah, (in
which speakers are introduced without any distinction,
more frequently than in the other scriptural books,)
would attempt to prove the Trinitv or the Deity of Jesus
Christ, from the passage quoted by the Editor, unless
he is previously biassed by some human creed, and
thereby absolutely prevented from comparing impartially
one passage with the other.
The Editor perhaps means the presonality and the
deity of the Holy Spirit by the phrase, "The Lord God
and his Spirit hath sent me,' f (verse 16), seemingly
bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far
country : yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass ; I
have purposed it, I will also do it."
t In the original Hebrew, the last phrase stands thus ; "The
Lord Jehovah hath sent me and his Spirit," which bear two
constructions ; first, "The 'Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and
hath sent his Spirit." The second is "The Lord Jehovah and
his Spirit hath sent me." '
FINAL APPEAL
conqueror of Babylon). He (the Lord) will do his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
Chaldeans/' (15.) " I even I, have spoken ; yea, I
have called him, (Cyrus,) I have brought him, and
he shall make his way prosperous." (16J " Come
ye near unto me, (says the Prophet,) hear ye this,
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there am I : (that is, from the
first time of these events :) and now the Lord God and
his Spirit hath sent me.'' (17-) Expressions similar to
the phrase, "From the time that it was, there am I," are
often used by the Prophets. Vide Jer. i. 5 : "And before
thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee,
and I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nations," And
so Isaiah xlix. 1. No one, I presume, that ever read,
even with common attention, the book of Isaiah, (in
which speakers are introduced without any distinction,
more frequently than in the other scriptural books,)
would attempt to prove the Trinitv or the Deity of Jesus
Christ, from the passage quoted by the Editor, unless
he is previously biassed by some human creed, and
thereby absolutely prevented from comparing impartially
one passage with the other.
The Editor perhaps means the presonality and the
deity of the Holy Spirit by the phrase, "The Lord God
and his Spirit hath sent me,' f (verse 16), seemingly
bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far
country : yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass ; I
have purposed it, I will also do it."
t In the original Hebrew, the last phrase stands thus ; "The
Lord Jehovah hath sent me and his Spirit," which bear two
constructions ; first, "The 'Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and
hath sent his Spirit." The second is "The Lord Jehovah and
his Spirit hath sent me." '