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For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.
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Verse 4. Likeness of Christ.—Known me. Before the Jews had shewn Cyrus the prophecies, he did not attribute his success to the Lord, and even afterwards he seems not to have left the superstitions of his country, as his sacrifices to idols are described. He resembled Nabuchodonosor and the philosophers, who did not glorify God according to their knowledge. Daniel 2:47. Romans 1:21. Cyrus even revoked the decree for building the temple. 1 Ezra 4:5. Calmet.—He believed there was one God; (1 Ezra 1) yet he did not embrace the truth entirely. Worthington.
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