13Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? …
All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)The scope of these verses is to show what a great and glorious being the Lord Jehovah is, who is Israel’s God and Saviour. It comes in here, 1. To encourage his people that were captives in Babylon to hope in him, and to depend upon him for deliverance, though they were ever so weak and their oppressors ever so strong. 2. To engage them to cleave to him, and not to turn aside after other gods; for…
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