But now thus says the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel,
Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And. Notwithstanding the sins of his people, God will deliver them, that they may be his witnesses, ver. 10. (Calmet)
Name. As an intimate friend, (Haydock) or slave, chap. xlix. 1. (Calmet)
God grants grace without any preceding merit. (Worthington)
Forerius explains this mostly of the Gentile church, though it regards the converted Jews. (Houbigant)
The things said here are of a quite different tenor from what was said in the previous passage about the people of the covenant, where he called them blind, deaf and plundered. Now the message here is of the better condition of those believers of the covenant who belong to a better order. For the former ones were those who were suffering. Here he addresses as “you” those who recognize their Creator and Maker. “Do listen to the one who keeps you an unblemished creation and product, for here you are fittingly called Jacob and Israel. For I made you in your soul, according to the image, and formed you, taking a body from the ground, and I provided my blood for you, buying back my own creation. You, being made worthy of these things, go by the road on which you are instructed to go and preach the good news. Although some will attack you, be encouraged that you are special. ‘For behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Be followers of me, the one who wished to give my bloo...
