פירוש על ישעיהו 48:3

The first things that passed, [viz.] the redemption from Egypt and Hezekiah’s salvation from the hand of Sennacherib.

I have declared, etc. God will say to the unbelievers, Have I not often foretold you coming events before they happened (ראשנות)?¹Comp. I. E. on 46:9 and note 6, and on 41:27 and note 35. The past tense is therefore used : and they came to pass.

I told from then When they had not yet come about, and suddenly I did it.

and they came to pass as I told before through My prophets.