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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
ISAIAH
CHAPTER 63
  16 Doubtless thou art our afather, though Abraham bbe ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from ceverlasting.

Footnotes
16a
Deut. 32: 6.
  6 Do ye thus arequite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy bfather that hath cbought thee? hath he not dmade thee, and established thee?
1 Chr. 29: 10.
  10 ¶ Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our afather, for ever and ever.
Isa. 64: 8.
  8 But now, O Lord, thou art our afather; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the bwork of thy hand.
b
IE Such forefathers as Abraham and Jacob, long dead, were not available to help.
c