Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 45:4

4. For Jacob my servants sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have sirnamed thee, though thou hast not known me .

I have called thee to this Honour, and that by name; not for thy sake, but for Israels sake: Therefore do not despise them, thou wilt find them a poor and inslaved People, neither be puffed up into a great Opinion of thy self.

I knew, and called thee by name, when thou didst neither know nor think of me; nay, when thou hadst no Being.