Isaiah 43:18-25

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• Reading the Text:
  • NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
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  • The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries.
  • The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons.
• Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
  • "Atonement and Forgiveness," Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit.
  • IV.XVII.3, IV.XXXIII.14, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
  • VI.6, Stromata, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
  • I.20, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 207)
  • IV.1, IV.11, IV.13, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
  • V.2, V.19, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 212)
  • Epistle LXII -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 253)
  • Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
  • From the Geneva Notes.
    • "They will have such abundance of all things as they return home, even in the dry and barren places, that the very beasts will feel my blessings and will acknowledge them: much more men ought to be thankful for the same."
  • From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
    • "Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him."
  • From Wesley's Notes.
    • "The scripture often speaks of things at a great distance of time, as if they were now at hand; to make us sensible of the inconsiderableness of time, and all temporal things, in comparison of God, and eternal things; upon which account it is said, that a thousand years are in God's sight but as one day."
  • "Forgiveness; Isaiah 43:25," Charles H. Spurgeon," 1855.
    • "...he will not exact punishment for them when we come before his judgment bar at last."
  • From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
    • "...just as Israel in the wilderness, between the Red Sea and Canaan, was guided, and supplied with water by Jehovah; but the "new" deliverance shall be attended with manifestations of God's power and love, eclipsing the old (compare Isa 41:17-19)."
• Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
  • "Letting Go of Your Story: Learning from the Traudl Junge," The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey with Jesus Foundation.
    • "Identify both healthy and unhealthy ways that we both 'remember' and 'forget.'"
  • Isaiah 43:18-25, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series B, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
  • Isaiah 43:18-25, Epiphany 7B, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia.
    • "The call for Israel not to remember the former things is a call to Israel not to dwell on the past as past, i.e. not to think of it as a past act or possibly not to lament over it as a past that is no longer present. The ‘new thing’ that Yahweh does is in fact the ‘old thing’ in a new time and place."
  • Isaiah 43:16-25, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia.
    • "This passage reminds me of the covenant made with the animals and humans in Gen 9 in which an equality between humans and animals is acknowledged."
  • Isaiah 43:14 - 44:8, Bible Study by Anthony Bartlett at Preaching Peace.
  • Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
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  • Keiser, Thomas A., "The Song of Moses as a Basis for Isaiah's Prophecy," Vetus Testamentum, 2005.
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  • Oswalt, John N., "The God of Newness: A Sermon on Isaiah 43:14-21," Calvin Theological Journal, 2004.
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  • Plantinga, Cornelius, Jr., "For Your Sake, For My Sake: A Sermon on Isaiah 43:14, 25," Calvin Theological Journal, 2004.
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• Sermons:
  • "A New Thing," Anna Cater Florence, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 2007.
  • "Behold, I am Doing a New Thing," Paul Tillich, from The Shaking of the Foundations, 1955. At Religion Online.
• Reviews:
  • Review: Francesc Ramis Darder, El triunfo de Yahve sobre los idolos (Is 40,12-44,23): "En vez de zarzas crecera el cipres". Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 2002. Review by Leo Laberge in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004. (Review is in English.)
  • Review: Jim W. Adams, The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55. T&T Clark, 2006. Review by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.
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