Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father hath sinned - This is the argument on the side of God, to show that they were neither unjustly punished, nor punished with undue severity. The argument is, that their rulers and…

This charge (and a high charge it is which is here exhibited against Jacob and Israel, God's professing people) comes in here, 1. To clear God's justice in bringing them into captivity, and to…

Thy first father Undoubtedly Jacob, the eponymous hero of the nation, is meant (cf. Hos 12:3 f.), not Abraham (who is never spoken of in the later literature as sinful), nor the earliest ancestors…