Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 41

Isaiah 41:1 ^! Gods mercie in chusing is people.

Isaiah 41:1 ^a God, as thogh he pleade his cause with all nacions, requireth silence that he may be heard in his right.

Isaiah 41:1 ^b That is gather all their power & supportes.

Isaiah 41:2 ^c Who called Abraham (who was the paterne of God justice in deliuering his Churche) from the idolatrie of the Chaldeans to go to and fro at his commandment, & placed him in the land of Canaan?

Isaiah 41:4 ^d Who hathe created man & mainteined his succession.

Isaiah 41:4 ^e Thogh the worlde set vp neuer so manie gods, yet they diminish nothing of the glorie: for I am all one, vnchangeable, which haue euer bene, and shalbe for euer.

Isaiah 41:5 ^g They assembled them selues, and conspired against me to mainteine their idolatrie.

Isaiah 41:5 ^f Considering mine excellent workes among my people.

Isaiah 41:6 ^h He noteth the obstinacie of the idolaters to mainteine their superstitions.

Isaiah 41:6 ^! Their idolatrie.

Isaiah 41:8 ⁱ And therefore oghtest not to pollute thy self with the supersticion of the Gentiles.

Isaiah 41:10 ^k That is, by the force of my promes in the performance whereof I wil shew my self faithful and juste.

Isaiah 41:12 ^l Because they shalbe destroyed.

Isaiah 41:14 ^m Thus he calleth them because they were contemned of all the worlde, & that they considering their owne poore estate, shulde seke vnto him for helpe

Isaiah 41:15 ⁿ I wil make thee able to destroye all thine enemies, be they neuer so mightie: and this chiefly is referred to the kingdome of Christ.

Isaiah 41:17 ^o That is thei that shalbe afflicted in the captiuitie of Babylon.

Isaiah 41:18 ^p God wil rather change the order of nature, then they shulde want anie thing that cry to him by true faith in their miseries: declaring to them hereby that they shal lacke nothing by the way, when they returne from Bablyon.

Isaiah 41:20 ^q That is, hathe appointed & determined that it shal come so to passe.

Isaiah 41:21 ^r He biddeth the idolaters to proue their religion, and to bring forthe their idoles, that they may be tryed whether thei knowe all things, and can do all things: which if they can not do, he concludeth that they are no gods, but vile idoles.

Isaiah 41:24 ^s So that a man can not make an idole, but he must do that which God detesteth, and abhorreth: for he chuseth his owne deuises, and forsaketh the Lords.

Isaiah 41:25 ^x Bothe of the Chaldeans and others.

Isaiah 41:25 ^u That is, Cyrus, who shal do all thing in my Name, & by my direction: whereby he meaneth that both their captiuitie, and deliuerance shal be ordered by Gods prouidence and appointement.

Isaiah 41:25 ^t Meaning, the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 41:26 ^y Meaning, that none of the gentiles gods can worke anie of these things.

Isaiah 41:27 ^! Deliuer and promised Zion.

Isaiah 41:27 ^z That is, the Israelites, which returne from the captiuitie.

Isaiah 41:27 ^a To wit, a continual succession of Prophetes & ministers.

Isaiah 41:28 ^b When I loked whether the idoles colde do these things, I founde that they had nether wisdome nor power to do anie things: therefore he concludeth that all are wicked, that trust in such vainitie.