Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 1:18

18 Come now and let us reason together , saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wooll .

I am willing to lay aside my Prerogative, and to submit the Matter to a fair and equal Trial, whether I do not deal justly in rejecting all your Services, which are accompanied with such gross Hypocrisie and Wickedness, and whether I do not deal very graciously, in offering Mercy and Pardon to you upon these Conditions.

Red and bloody, as theirs were, v. 15. great and hainous.

They shall be washed and purged by the Blood of the Messias, whereby you shall be made white and pure in Gods sight. It is a Me [illegible: 1+ letters]onymical Expression, as sins are said to be purged, Heb. 1. 3. when Men are purged from their sins, Heb. 9. 14.

Which for the most part is white, and is compared to Snow for whiteness, Revel. 1. 14.

Marginal references: Psal. 51. 7. Rev. 7. 14.