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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 41:9 - 41:9
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Abraham, the father of the Jews, taken from the remote Ur of the Chaldees. Others take it of Israel, called out of Egypt (Deu 4:37; Hos 11:1).
from the chief men - literally, “the elbows”; so the joints; hence the root which joins the tree to the earth; figuratively, those of ancient and noble stock. But the parallel clause “ends of the earth” favors Gesenius, who translates, “the extremities of the earth”; so Jerome.