Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 11:9
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Isaiah11:9
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in my holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea .
In Zion, in my Church. Whereever the Gospel comes and prevails, it will have this effect.
Metonymically put for the Inhabitants of the Earth; and as before it was used for the greater part, v. 4. so here it is used for the better part of the World.
Of saving and practical Knowledge. Whereby he intimates, That all that Savageness and Malignity which is in wicked men towards true Christians, proceeded from their deep Ignorance, and particularly from Ignorance of God; and withal, that a right Knowledge of God will make a marvellous and thorow Change in the Dispositions and Conversations of men.
The Channel of the Sea, the thing contained being put for the thing containing, by a Metonymy common in Scripture, and all Authors.
Marginal references: Job 5. 23. Isa. 35. 9.; Hab. 2. 14.
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