Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:35

35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate, is become like the Garden of Eden : and the waste and desolate and ruin'd cities are become fenced and are inhabited.

Strangers, or Forreigners, who had heard or seen the sad wastes, and now either hear or see the replanting of it, and how it succeedeth.

See the phrase, chap. 28.13. most fruitful, pleasant, and desireable. This is true of the Church of Christ without an H[illegible: 1 letter]p[illegible: 2 letters]b[illegible: 1 letter]le, but here 'tis to be accommodated by a comparative, thus, that good s[illegible: 1 letter]ate the Iews are now in, compar'd with what they were in, is as an Eden to a Wilderness.

Not [illegible: 1 letter]nely built for habitation, but fortified for defence.

Marginal references: Isa. 51.3.