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Isaiah 45:7 (KJV)
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
KJV Commentary
The phrase I … create evil refers to physical evil or calamitous consequences, rather than moral evil. Young (III, p. 200) disagrees with Delitzsch in viewing this as sinful evil that is allowed to exist in the world by the decretum absolutum of God who has foreordained whatever comes to pass. However, he cautions that this must be viewed in light of the biblical teaching of the responsibility of the individual as well and warns against the extremes of both hyper-Calvinism and Arminianism. In either case, God is not to be viewed as the author of sin by any means.
Isaiah 45:7 Greek OT: Septuagint
εγω ο κατασκευασας φως και ποιησας σκοτος ο ποιων ειρηνην και κτιζων κακα εγω κυριος ο θεος ο ποιων ταυτα παντα
Scofield
create evil Heb. "ra" translated "sorrow," "wretchedness," "adversity," "afflictions," "calamities," but never translated sin. God created evil only in the sense that He made sorrow, wretchedness, etc., to be the sure fruits of sin.
Matthew Henry Commentary
There is no God beside Jehovah. There is nothing done without him. He makes peace, put here for all good; and creates evil, not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment. He is the Author of all that is true, holy, good, or happy; and evil, error, and misery, came into the world by his permission, through the wilful apostacy of his creatures, but are restrained and overruled to his righteous purpose. This doctrine is applied, for the comfort of those that earnestly longed, yet quietly waited, for the redemption of Israel. The redemption of sinners by the Son of God, and the pouring out the Spirit, to give success to the gospel, are chiefly here intended. We must not expect salvation without righteousness; together the Lord hath created them.
Let not oppressors oppose God's designs for his people. Let not the poor oppressed murmur, as if God dealt unkindly with them. Men are but earthen pots; they are broken potsherds, and are very much made so by mutual contentions. To contend with Him is as senseless as for clay to find fault with the potter. Let us turn God's promises into prayers, beseeching him that salvation may abound among us, and let us rest assured that the Judge of all the earth will do right.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
KJV Commentary
The phrase I … create evil refers to physical evil or calamitous consequences, rather than moral evil. Young (III, p. 200) disagrees with Delitzsch in viewing this as sinful evil that is allowed to exist in the world by the decretum absolutum of God who has foreordained whatever comes to pass. However, he cautions that this must be viewed in light of the biblical teaching of the responsibility of the individual as well and warns against the extremes of both hyper-Calvinism and Arminianism. In either case, God is not to be viewed as the author of sin by any means.
Isaiah 45:7 Greek OT: Septuagint
εγω ο κατασκευασας φως και ποιησας σκοτος ο ποιων ειρηνην και κτιζων κακα εγω κυριος ο θεος ο ποιων ταυτα παντα
Scofield
create evil Heb. "ra" translated "sorrow," "wretchedness," "adversity," "afflictions," "calamities," but never translated sin. God created evil only in the sense that He made sorrow, wretchedness, etc., to be the sure fruits of sin.
Matthew Henry Commentary
There is no God beside Jehovah. There is nothing done without him. He makes peace, put here for all good; and creates evil, not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment. He is the Author of all that is true, holy, good, or happy; and evil, error, and misery, came into the world by his permission, through the wilful apostacy of his creatures, but are restrained and overruled to his righteous purpose. This doctrine is applied, for the comfort of those that earnestly longed, yet quietly waited, for the redemption of Israel. The redemption of sinners by the Son of God, and the pouring out the Spirit, to give success to the gospel, are chiefly here intended. We must not expect salvation without righteousness; together the Lord hath created them.
Let not oppressors oppose God's designs for his people. Let not the poor oppressed murmur, as if God dealt unkindly with them. Men are but earthen pots; they are broken potsherds, and are very much made so by mutual contentions. To contend with Him is as senseless as for clay to find fault with the potter. Let us turn God's promises into prayers, beseeching him that salvation may abound among us, and let us rest assured that the Judge of all the earth will do right.
