Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 45:7

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

7. form . . . create — yatzar, to give "form" to previously existing matter. Bara, to "create" from nothing the chaotic dark material. light . . . darkness —literally ( :- ), emblematical also, prosperity to Cyrus, calamity to Babylon and the nations to be vanquished [GROTIUS] . . . Isaiah refers also to the Oriental belief in two coexistent, eternal principles, ever struggling with each other, light or good, and darkness or evil, Oromasden and Ahrimanen. God, here, in opposition, asserts His sovereignty over both [VITRINGA]. create evil —not moral evil ( James 1:13 ), but in contrast to "peace" in the parallel clause, war, disaster (compare Psalms 65:7 ; Amos 3:6 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

part_of pericope/per-isa-45-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/isa-45-7

Source

source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
evidence_grade: T_theological

엣지 (그래프 연결)

나가는(out)

explains → Isaiah 45:7 bible-text/isa-45-7

part_of → Isaiah 45:1-7 pericope/per-isa-45-001

translated_as → Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 45:7 (ko) language_pack/jfb-isa-45-7-7-ko