Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 32:8

8. But the liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall he stand .

He who is truely Liberal and Vertuous, will shew it by designing and practising liberal or vertuous Actions: And he who doth so, will not destroy himself thereby, as wicked Men falsly suppose, but establish and advance himself. But this Verse also, as well as the former, is, and may be otherwise rendred: And (repeat, he shall be called, as before) liberal, who deviseth liberal things, and persisteth, or continueth in liberal things. If▪ it be thought strange, That so many Verses should be spent in Affirming that which, in effect, was said, ver. 5. it must be considered, that these Verses do not onely contain an Affirmation, that they should be called vile persons, or churles, or liberal, that were so; but also a Description of their Qualities and Practices, which was useful for their Conviction, and for the Instruction of others.

Marginal references: Or, be established.