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Isaiah 45:10

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

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, etc.! A change is made in the metaphor, the relationship of a father and his child being substituted for that of a potter and his clay. What would a man think of a child murmuring against his parent for not having made him stronger, handsomer, cleverer?

Would not such a child be regarded as most unnatural, and as deserving to have woe denounced upon him?

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