Isaías 45:20

20 Reuníos, y venid, allegaos, todos los escapados de los gentiles. No tienen conocimiento los que levantan el madero de su escultura, y los que ruegan al dios, que no salva

Isaías 45:20 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye that are
escaped of the nations
Not that escaped the sword of Cyrus's army, the Chaldeans; nor the Jews that escaped out of Babylon and other countries, by his means; but the remnant, according to the election of grace among the Gentiles; such who were called out of Heathenish darkness into the marvellous light of the Gospel, and escaped the idolatries that others continued in; these are called and summoned together, as to observe the grace of God to themselves, so to labour to convince others of their gross ignorance and stupidity in worshipping idols, and to judge and pass sentence on the obstinate among them: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image;
or that "lift up" or "carry the wood of their graven image" ^F4; the inside of whose graven image is wood, though covered with some metal which is graved; and for a man to carry such an image on his shoulders, either in procession or in order to fix it in some proper place for adoration, argues great ignorance and stupidity; such persons can have no knowledge of deity, that can believe that a log of wood, covered with gold or silver, graved by art and man's device, and which they are obliged to carry upon their shoulders, can be a god, or a fit object of worship: and pray to a god that cannot save;
itself, nor them; cannot hear their prayers, nor return an answer to them; cannot help and assist them in distress, nor deliver them out of their troubles; and therefore it must be the height of madness and folly to pray unto it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Mlop Ue ta Myavwnh) (oi airontev to xulon glumma autwn) , Sept. "qui efferunt", Pagninus; "extollentes", Montanus; "qui gestant", Piscator; "gestantes lignum sculptilis sui", Junius & Tremellius; "qui portant", Cocceius, Vitringa.

Isaías 45:20 In-Context

18 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR, que crea los cielos; él mismo, el Dios que forma la tierra, el que la hizo, y la compuso. No la creó para nada; para que fuera habitada la creó: Yo soy el SEÑOR, y ninguno más que yo

19 No hablé en escondido, en un lugar oscuro de la tierra. No en balde dije a la generación de Jacob: Buscadme; yo soy el SEÑOR que hablo justicia, que anuncio rectitud

20 Reuníos, y venid, allegaos, todos los escapados de los gentiles. No tienen conocimiento los que levantan el madero de su escultura, y los que ruegan al dios, que no salva

21 Publicad, y haced llegar, y entren todos en consulta. ¿Quién hizo oír esto desde el principio, y desde entonces lo tiene dicho, sino yo, el SEÑOR? Y no hay más Dios que yo; Dios justo y Salvador, no hay más que yo

22 Mirad a mí, y sed salvos, todos los términos de la tierra, porque yo soy Dios, y no hay más