42:9 Behold, the former things have {p} come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
(p) As in time past I have been true in my promises, so will I be in time to come.
42:9 I tell you - That when they come to pass, you may know that I am God, and that this is my work.
42:5-12 The work of redemption brings back man to the obedience he owes to God as his Maker. Christ is the light of the world. And by his grace he opens the understandings Satan has blinded, and sets at liberty from the bondage of sin. The Lord has supported his church. And now he makes new promises, which shall as certainly be fulfilled as the old ones were. When the Gentiles are brought into the church, he is glorified in them and by them. Let us give to God those things which are his, taking heed that we do not serve the creature more than the Creator.
