1 have written

I have written.

The Prophet does not say, he has written; but he brings in God, saying I have written. And that first upon these two reasons.

First, to put the greater emphasis upon it, for it is more for God himself to come and say, I have written; as if a Father or Master say to his Child or Servant, I command you to do such a thing, it is more than if a Brother or fellow-Servant should say, my Father has bidden, or my Master has bidden you to do such a thing.

Secondly, whoever were the pen-men of the Word, it is I that write it, I take it upon my self. The Word is so much his that God claims not only the truths that are in the Word, but the very ordering for the words; and in (2 Peter 1:21) it is said of holy men, they spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost: they were carried on with a kind of violence as the word signifies, and not only moved, but carried on with a kind of violence to write what they did, both in their speaking and in their writing, I have written.