Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 11:6

6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid : and the calf and the young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them .

The Creatures shall be restored to that State of Innocy in which they were before the Fall of Man. But this is not to be understood literally, which is a gross and vain Conceit of some Iews; but spiritually and metaphorically, as is evident. And the sence of the Metaphor is this; Men of fierce, and cruel, and ungovernable Dispositions, shall be so transformed by the Preaching of the Gospel, and by the Grace of Christ, that they shall become most humble, and gentle, and tractable, and shall no more vex and persecute those meek and poor ones mentioned v. 4. but shall become such as they: of which we have Instances in Saul being made a Paul, and in the rugged Jaylour, Act. 16. and in innumerable others. But how can this be applied to Hezekiah with any colour?

They will submit their proud and rebellious Wills to the Conduct and Command of the meanest Persons that speak to them in Christ's Name.

Marginal references: Chap. 65. 25. Exek. 34. 25. Hos. 2. 18.