43:7 everyone who belongs to me, 1
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed – yes, whom I made!
43:21 the people whom I formed for myself,
so they might praise me.” 2
11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.
4:11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
since you created all things,
and because of your will they existed and were created!” 3
1 tn Heb “everyone who is called by my name” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “[so] they might declare my praise.”
3 tc The past tense of “they existed” (ἦσαν, hsan) and the order of the expression “they existed and were created” seems backwards both logically and chronologically. The text as it stands is the more difficult reading and seems to have given rise to codex A omitting the final “they were created,” 2329 replacing “they existed” (ἦσαν) with “have come into being” (ἐγένοντο, egeneto), and 046 adding οὐκ (ouk, “not”) before ἦσαν (“they did not exist, [but were created]”). Several