Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

He vvill help thee.] Others supply the relative Ci, as if he had said, Thy helper: notwithstanding, it seems best to read it apart, and the sense had bin clearer if we had read it in the first person, I vvill help thee: but the difference is not great. The sum of the whole comes to this;¹ that he which is the Creator of the people, will be ready to succour them when the appointed time is come. In which regard it is free for every one to rest in the exposition he thinks best: yet I had rather follow the plain and the less constrained sense, without supplying any thing.

He vvill help thee.] Others supplie the relatiue Ci, as if he had said, Thy helper: notwithstanding, it seemes best to reade it apart, and the sense had bin clearer if we had read it in the first person, I vvill help thee: but the difference is not great. The summe of the whole comes to this;¹ that he which is the Creator of the people, will be readie to succor them when the appointed time is come. In which regard it is free for euery one to rest in the exposition he thinks best: yet I had rather follow the plaine and the lesse constrained sense, without supplying any thing.

1. 1If God have regenerated us he will surely help us.If God haue regenerated vs he will surely help vs.

The word Joshurun is diversly expounded, for some would derive it of Jaschar, which signifies, To be upright, or, To please: others derive it otherwise: but I agree rather with those who translate Beloved, deriving it from the verb above mentioned. Moses also hath given this title to the Israelites in his song, Deut. 32.15: for howsoever some translate the Hebrew word there upright, as in this place, yet the old translation agrees best, which reads it, My beloved is waxed fat. Now our Prophet adorns his people with this name, to the end that by the remembrance of benefits past, they might conceive good hope for the time to come.