...ill-deserving. God's own life is in the struggle. The life of God is being born again through agony and pain. "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the...bare them, and carried them all the days of old." (Isaiah 63 : 9.) God suffers to redeem. Not only is He afflicted in the afflictions of His people,...

...a Cyrus, "to subdue nations before him." He was a God of mercy toward his people, "a just God and a Saviour." "In all their affliction he was afflicted,...bare them, and carried them all the days of old." He was a God of righteousness, this God of the prophets; his concern was not for sacrifices and offerings,...

...bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. For he said, Surely they are my people, children that...he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. — ISA. 63 7-9. be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my...

...and in a wonderful contrast brings God near to the heart of man. " In all their affliction," he says, "he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved...he bare them, and carried them all the days of old " (Ixiii, 9 ; cf. xlvi, 3, 4). The thought of this human tenderness of God rouses the answering thought...

...iniquity and oppression; he is the God of toil, comrade and fellow worker with all who strive and serve. "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the...he bare them, and carried them all the days of old" (Isa. 63. 9). The cross of Christ is not a passing incident but a revelation of the divine life from...

...his lovingkindnesses. For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely : so he was their saviour. In all their affliction he...carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit : therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them....

...and Israel acknowledge us not; Thou art, 0 Lord, our father, our redeemer;" "In all their afflictions He was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved...he bare them and carried them all the days of old." These quotations are taken almost at random, from that voice, anonymous like that of so many of his...

...praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward gton "he was afflicted." (See Jdg. 10:16.) "the angel of his presence." (See Gen. 16:9; 22:11; 48:16; Ex....

...relationship to God. Then he goes on to remind himself and the people, of God's dealings with them. 'In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the...bare them, and carried them all the days of old.' You see what he is doing? He says, 'Here are we, the Children of Israel, the Chaldeans have come and...

...sending his glorious power to be with his servant Moses and endowing his people with his Holy Spirit: 'In all their affliction he was afflicted and the...carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he became hostile to them and fought against them.'138 Neither in...