John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 45:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them, &c.] This refers not to any persons spoken of before; not to Israel or the church, or converts among the Gentiles that came to her; but to those that follow, of whom the same is said in other words: they shall go to confusion together, that are makers of idols; the Targum is, “worshippers of images;” both may be designed: this refers to the first times of the Gospel, and its coming into the Gentile world, and its success there; when the oracles of the Heathens were struck dumb; idols and idol temples were forsaken; and Paganism was abolished in the Roman empire; and when the gods they served could not help them, but they fled to the rocks to hide them from the wrath of God and the Lamb, (<660615>Revelation 6:15-17).

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