Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 44:8

8. Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time , and have declared it ? ye are even my witnesses . Is there a God besides me ? yea, there is no God, I know not any .

Thee, O Israel, whom he bids not to fear. The S[illegible: 1+ letters]nce is, I call you Israelites to bear me Witness, Whether I have not, from time to time, acquainted you with things to come, such as your Sojourning in a strange Land for Four Hundred Years, and your deliverance and happiness after that time, Gen. 15. 13, 14. and many things of the like nature?

From the time when I appointed the ancient people, as I now said, ver. 7. These were pregrant Instances of God's Prediction of things to come, not onely from the beginning of the Iewish Common-wealth; but even from the first Ages of the World, as unto Enoch, Iude ver. 14. and unto Noah, Gen. 6. 3. To say nothing of what other Authors relate concerning Adam and Seth.

Have published it to the World in my Sacred Records.

Both of my Predictions, and of the exact agreeableness of Events to them.

Judge by this Character, whether I be not the onely true God.

If any of you be wiser than I am, I am willing to be informed. It is a sarcastical Speech. But this Clause may be, and is, by others taken interrogatively, do not I know it? Is it not a certain and undeniable Truth, that there is no other God?

Marginal references: Chap. 43. 10.; Deut. 4. 35, 39. & 32. 39. 1 Sam. 2. 2. Chap. 45. 5.; Heb. rock. Deut. 32. 4.