Isaiah 48:10 talks about God choosing, like this:
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Can you tell me what that means?
Isaiah 48:10 talks about God choosing, like this:
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Can you tell me what that means?
I would like to a response to this, please.
The literal meaning of the word is to try or test; to choose is an implied meaning. So the sense is, to select by testing, which seems to fit the context better than “chosen”. Barnes has a good exposition on this:
http://www.studylight.org/com/bnb/view.cgi?bk=isa&ch=48&vs=10#10