Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 10:22

22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness .

Or, O Israel: to whom by an Apostrophe he directeth his Speech.

Or, a remnant onely, as before: For that this is a Threatning in respect of some, as well a Promise in respect of others, is evident from the rest of this, and from the following Verse.

The Destruction of the People of Israel was already decreed or determined (as it is in the next Verse) by the fixed Counsel of God, and therefore must needs be executed, and like a Deluge overflow them.

As this Word is rendred Rom. 9. 28. the Preposition in or with being here understood, as it is every where. And this is added, to shew, that although this Judgment of God may seem very severe, yet it is most just, not onely by the Laws of strict and rigid Justice, but even by the Rules of Equity and Clemency, as this Word oft signifies, inasmuch as he hath spared a considerable Remnant of them, when he might have destroyed them utterly. And so this Word is added as a Reason why a Remnant, and why but a Remnant, should return; because God would both glorifie his Justice, and manifest his Mercy. And in this mixed sence the Apostle seems to expound this Place, Rom. 9. 27, 28.

Marginal references: Rom. 9. 27.; Heb. in, or amongst.; Chap. 28. 22.; Or, in.