Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 49:18

18. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together and come to thee : as I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely cloth thee with them all, as with an ornament , and bind them on thee as a bride doth.

To wit, the Gentiles, as sufficiently appeareth from what hath been already said, and from that which followeth. The sence is, Thy Church shall not onely be restored and established in Ierusalem, but it shall be vastly enlarged and adorned by the accession of the Gentiles to it.

To receive instruction from thee, and to be incorporated with thee into one and the same Church.

They shall not be a burden, as the Gentiles formerly were when they mixed themselves with the Iews, but an Ornament i[illegible: 1+ letters] respect of those excellent gif[illegible: 1+ letters] and graces wherewith they shall enrich and honour thy Church.

Marginal references: Chap. 60. 4.