OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 59:16

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He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.

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Verse 16. Himself, to arrest his arm, stretched out to chastise his son; or to second him. There is nothing in man to stop God’s vengeance. He therefore pardons out of his own goodness. Calmet. 59:2 and 63:4. Calmet.—He became man to redeem us, as no pure mortal could do it. Worthington.

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