10Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. …
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)God here challenges the worshippers of idols to produce such proofs of the divinity of their false gods as even this very instance (to go no further) of the redemption of the Jews out of Babylon furnished the people of Israel with, to prove that their God is the true and living God, and he only. I. The patrons of idolatry are here called to appear, and say what they have to say in defence of their…
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