Yǐsaìyàshū 40:21

21 Nǐmen qǐbù céng zhīdào ma , nǐmen qǐbù céng tīngjian ma , cóng qǐchū qǐ méiyǒu rén gàosu nǐmen ma , zì cóng lì dì de gēnjī , nǐmen qǐ méiyǒu míngbai ma .

Yǐsaìyàshū 40:21 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 40:21

Have ye not known?
] This is the speech of the prophet, directed to the idolaters, appealing to their own natural knowledge, who, from the light of nature, might know that idols were nothing, had no divinity in them: that it is God that made the earth and governs the world, and who only ought to be worshipped: have ye not heard?
by tradition from the ancients, from your forefathers, who received it from theirs, and have delivered it to you: hath it not been told you from the beginning?
from the beginning of your states and kingdoms, and even from the beginning of the world, by the wisest and best of men that have been in it, that those things are true before related, and what follow: have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
the being of God, the invisible things of him, his eternal power and Godhead, from the things that are made, even from his founding of the earth; as well as such knowledge and understanding has been as early as that, and might be continued from it: or, have ye not understood the foundations of the earth
^F25? what the earth is founded upon, and who laid the foundations of it; no other than that divine Being described in the next words.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (Urah twdowm Mtwnybh alh) "nonne intelligetis fundamenta terrae?" Pagninus, Montanus; "annon intellexistis?" Vatablus.

Yǐsaìyàshū 40:21 In-Context

19 Ǒuxiàng shì jiàngrén zhìzào , yín jiàng yòng jīn bāoguǒ , wèi tā zhùzào yín liàn .

20 Qióngfá xiàn bù qǐ zhèyàng gōngwù de , jiù jiǎnxuǎn bùnéng xiǔ huaì de shùmù , wèi zìjǐ xúnzhǎo qiǎo jiàng , lì qǐ bùnéng yáodòng de ǒuxiàng .

21 Nǐmen qǐbù céng zhīdào ma , nǐmen qǐbù céng tīngjian ma , cóng qǐchū qǐ méiyǒu rén gàosu nǐmen ma , zì cóng lì dì de gēnjī , nǐmen qǐ méiyǒu míngbai ma .

22 Shén zuò zaì dì qiú dà juān zhī shang , dì shang de jūmín hǎoxiàng huángchóng . tā pū zhāng qióng cāng rú mànzǐ , zhǎn kāi zhū tiān rú kĕ zhù de zhàngpéng .

23 Tā shǐ jūnwáng guīyú xū wú , shǐ dì shang de shĕnpàn guān chéngwéi xū kōng .