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Isaiah 65:17

Isaiah 65:17

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

I create. The same verb is used as in ; and the prophet's idea seems to be that the existing heaven and earth are to be entirely destroyed (see , , and the comment ad loc.

), and a fresh heaven and earth created in their place out of nothing. The "new Jerusalem" is not the old Jerusalem renovated, but is a veritable "new Jerusalem," "created a rejoicing" (; scrap.

). The germ of the teaching will be found in . The former shall not be remembered. Some suppose "the former troubles" (see ) to be meant; but it is best (with Delitzsch) to understand "the former heavens and earth."

The glory of the new heavens and earth would be such that the former ones would not only not be regretted, but would not even be had in remembrance. No one would so much as think of them.

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