Komentarz do Izajasza 43:27

Your first father sinned by saying (Gen. 15:8), “How will I know...?”

Thy first father hath sinned. Jeroboam, when chosen by the Israelites, to be their king, without the consent of God.²⁵This statement is not quite correct, since the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh told Jeroboam that God had appointed him to be king over ten tribes (1 Kgs. 11:29—39). The idolatry of Jeroboam should rather be pointed at by I. E.

and your intercessors transgressed against Me You have none among all the intercessors upon whose merit you rely, in whom I have not found transgression. Isaac loved My enemy [Esau].

ומליציך And thy interpreters.²⁶A. V., And thy teachers. Either the princes, the interpreters of the king, are meant, or the Levites, the interpreters of the priests. Some explain אביך by thy teachers. Comp. 2 Kgs. 12:13; Gen. 4:21; 45:8, and מליציך by thy pupils. As to מליץ interpreter, comp. Gen. 42:23