Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 49:24

24. Shall the prey bee taken from the mighty , or the lawfull captive delivered .

Here he starteth an objection against the forementioned promises: How can Gods Church be delivered when she is become a prey to, and is in the hands of her most potent enemies?

He who was taken Captive in a just War, as Gods People might in some sort be said to be, because God himself had delivered them into their enemies hands, and that justly for their sins. So here is a double impediment to their deliverance out of their Corporal and Spiritual bondage, the great Power of the enemy which kept them in bnodage, and the Justice of God which pleads against them and against their deliverance.

Marginal references: Heb. the cap [illegible: 1+ letters] of the west.