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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible"
author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown"
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section: 535 of 927
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# Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

*Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown*

The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation.

## 535. Micah · 8 of 8

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[¶0] our ... their--change of person. Micah in the first case identifying himself and his sins with his people and their sins; in the second, speaking of them and their sins.

[¶1] 20. perform the truth--the faithful promise.

[¶2] to Jacob ... Abraham--Thou shalt make good to their posterity the promise made to the patriarchs. God's promises are called "mercy," because they flow slowly from grace; "truth," because they will be surely performed ([Lu 1:72], 73; [1Th 5:24]).

[¶3] sworn unto our fathers--([Psa 105:9], ). The promise to Abraham is in [Ge 12:2]; to Isaac, in [Ge 26:24]; to Jacob, in [Ge 28:13]. This unchangeable promise implied an engagement that the seed of the patriarchs should never perish, and should be restored to their inheritance as often as they turned wholly to God ([De 30:1], 2).