Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 43:18

18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old .

But although your former deliverance out of Egypt was in it self a most glorious work, which you ought alwayes to remember and consider, yet this other work of your deliverance out of Babylon by Cyrus, and those blessings which shall follow upon it, and particularly that inestimable mercy of sending the Messiah, shall be so transcendent a favour, that in comparison thereof, all your former deliverances are scarce worthy of your remembrance and consideration. Which exposition is confirmed by two parallel texts, Ier. 16. 14, 15. & 23. 7, 8. From all which texts layd together it appears, that this later deliverance, compared with that out of Egypt, is not to be confined to their freedom from the Babylonish Captivity, but to be extended to the consequences of it, and especially to the Redemption by Christ; because otherwise that Egyptian deliverance, was more glorious and wonderful in many respects, than the Babylonian.

Marginal references: Chap. 46. 9.