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Isaiah 43:18

Isaiah 43:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Remember ye not the former things. The old deliverance will be as nothing compared with the new. Israel must cast its eye forwards, not backwards. Mr. Cheyne well compares , , and also well notes that "the chief glories of the second manifestation are spiritual."

Israel in the wilderness was a stiff:necked and rebellious people, given to murmuring, licentiousness, and idolatry. Israel, returned from Babylon, will no more hanker after idols, but will have God's Law "put in their inward parts" (), and will "show forth God's praise" ().

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