With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,.... This is the same as before, only repeated in other words, the more strongly to deny that any mere creature counselled, taught, and instructed the Spirit of Christ, in the ordering and managing the works of creation:and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
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Isaiah 40:14
Isaiah 40:14
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