• The appellation for the LORD. “The first, and … the last.” Comparing this with what Christ is called (Revelation 22:13) and we learn that the Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New Testament. “The isles [nations] saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid” (Isaiah 41:5). The nations of the then known world were very much afraid of Cyrus and his nation, for Cyrus was a very powerful king.
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