“Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.”
The prophetic statement 'Draw near to me, hear this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there' asserts prophetic transparency and divine presence from creation. The contrast with 'secret' may allude to Babylonian divination that claims esoteric knowledge, with the prophet claiming instead that God's revealed word is accessible and public. This verse establishes credibility through consistency: the prophet's word aligns with divine purposes announced from creation. Truth requires no secrecy.
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