40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: …
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: …
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-43)This conclusion of the song speaks three things: I. Glory to God, Deut. 32:39. “See now upon the whole matter, that I, even I, am he . Learn this from the destruction of idolaters, and the inability of their idols to help them.” The great God here demands the glory, 1. Of a self-existence: I, even I, am he . Thus Moses concludes with that name of God by which he was first made to know him (Exod. 3…
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