Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 44:9 - 44:9

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 44:9 - 44:9


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That they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god “That every one may be ashamed, that he hath formed a god” - The Bodleian MS., one of the first extant for its antiquity and authority, instead of מי mi, at the beginning of the tenth verse, has כי ki, which greatly clears up the construction of a very obscure passage. Doederlein approves of this reading. The Septuagint likewise closely connect in construction the end of Isa 44:9 with the beginning of Isa 44:10; and wholly omit the interrogative מי mi, which embarrasses the sentence: Αισχυνθησονται οἱ πλασσοντες Θεον, και γλυφοντες παντες ανωφελη· “But they shall be confounded that make a god; and they who engrave unprofitable things;” agreeably to the reading of the MS. above mentioned.