Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

IT is not very certain whether Isaiah here §1mentions the perplexity and danger in which the Jews were, the rather to set forth the greatness of their deliverance: or, whether §2he foretells the calamity which was to come, that the faithful should not faint underneath it. For mine own part, I think this is not to be referred to the history of that which already happened: for in regard: that sharp and sore temptations were at hand, it was necessary that the faithful should be fortified to wait patiently for the help of God even then when things should be grown desperate. Howsoever it be, it is a woeful and lamentable description of the wast of the Church; that in these dangers the faithful might hold fast their confidence: secondly, that seeing themselves delivered, they might acknowledge they were no other way rid from them but by the wonderful power of God.

IT is not very certaine whether Isaiah here §1mentions the perplexitie and danger in which the Iewes were, the rather to set forth the greatnes of their deliuerance: or, whether §2