Isaías 42:24

24 Quem entregou Jacó por despojo, e Israel aos roubadores? porventura não foi o Senhor, aquele contra quem pecamos, e em cujos caminhos eles não queriam andar, e cuja lei não queriam observar?

Isaías 42:24 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 42:24

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?
&c.] To the Roman soldiers, to be spoiled and robbed by them? this was not owing to chance and fortune, or to the superior skill and power of the Roman army: did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned?
he did, but not without cause; he was justly provoked to it by the sins of the Jews, which were the meritorious and procuring causes of it; yet the Roman army could not have taken their city and plundered it had it not been the will of God, who for their sins, delivered it up to them; even Titus, the Heathen emperor, himself saw the hand of God in it, and acknowledged it;

``God favouring us (says he ^F3) we have made war; it is God that drew the Jews out of those fortresses; for what could human hands and machines do against such towers?''

for they would not walk in his ways;
in Christ, the way, the truth, and the life; nor in the ways of his commandments; or in the ordinances of the Gospel; all which they rejected: neither were they obedient unto his law;
or "doctrine" ^F4; the doctrine of the Gospel, particularly the doctrine of justification by faith in the righteousness of Christ; they went about to establish their own righteousness, and did not submit to his; and also every other doctrine respecting the person, office, and grace of Christ, whom they disbelieved, and refused to receive.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 lb. (De Bello Jud. l. 7. c. 9.) sect. 1.
F4 (wtrwtb) "non acquieverunt in doctrina ejus", Forerius.

Isaías 42:24 In-Context

22 Mas este é um povo roubado e saqueado; todos estão enlaçados em cavernas, e escondidos nas casas dos cárceres; são postos por presa, e ninguém há que os livre; por despojo, e ninguém diz: Restitui.

23 Quem há entre vós que a isso dará ouvidos? que atenderá e ouvirá doravante?

24 Quem entregou Jacó por despojo, e Israel aos roubadores? porventura não foi o Senhor, aquele contra quem pecamos, e em cujos caminhos eles não queriam andar, e cuja lei não queriam observar?

25 Pelo que o Senhor derramou sobre Israel a indignação da sua ira, e a violência da guerra; isso lhe ateou fogo ao redor; contudo ele não o percebeu; e o queimou; contudo ele não se compenetrou disso.