Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 48:11

11. For mine own sake, even for my own sake will I do it ; for how should my Name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another .

This great work of delivering my People out of Babylon.

My Name is here fitly supplied both out of ver. 9. where it is expressed, and out of the following clause of this verse, where he saith, my glory, which is equivalent to it. The sence is, if I should not spare and deliver my People, my name would be sadly profaned and [illegible: 1 word], as if I were either impotent or implacable to them.

I will not give any colour or occasion to Idolaters, to ascribe the Divine Nature and Properties, which are my peculiar, unto Idols, as they would do if I did not rescue my People out of their hands in spight of their Idols.

Marginal references: Chap. 42. 8.