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As the rain … and the snow. The rain and the snow are
God's ministers (Psalms 148:8), and go forth from him, just as his word does. They have an
appointed work to do, and do not return to him, whose ministers they are, until
they have done it. It is best to translate, with Delitzsch and Mr. Cheyne, "As
the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither,
except it hath watered the earth," etc. The writer is, apparently,
aware, as the writer of Ecclesiastes is, that the
water which falls from heaven in the shape of rain does return thither again in
the shape of vapor (see Ecclesiastes 1:7).
So shall my word be. God's word is creative. With the
utterance the result is achieved. Hence the
sublime passage, which even heathenism could admire, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light" (Genesis 1:3). Hence,
too, the more general statement, "By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made;
and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth" (Psalms 33:6; comp. Psalms 148:5). But it shall accomplish; rather, unless it has
accomplished. There is a mixture of two constructions, "It shall
not return void," and "It shall not return unless it has
accomplished," etc.
It shall prosper. Every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God has a
prosperous course. It is endued with life from God,
and "runs like a swift messenger through nature and the
world of man, there
to melt the ice, as it were, and here to heal and to save; and it does not
return from its course till it has given effect to the will of the Sender. "The
special "word" which the prophet has here in mind is the promise, so
frequently given, of deliverance from Babylon and return in peace and joy to
Palestine. But he carries his teaching beyond the
immediate occasion, for the benefit of the people of God in all ages. SOURCE:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tpc/isaiah-55.html © 2018 DailyTruth |
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