1I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
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But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? …
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: …
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle Paul (an expositor we may depend upon) has given us the true sense of these verses, and told us what was the event they pointed at and were fulfilled in, namely, the calling in of the Gentiles and the rejection of the Jews, by the preaching of the gospel, Rom. 10:20 , 21 . And he observes that herein Esaias is very bold , not only in foretelling a thing so improbable ever to be brought…
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