Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 49:7

7. Thus saith the LORD the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One , to him whom man despiseth , to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers▪ Kings shall see and arise , Princes also shall worship, because of the LORD, that is faithful , and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee .

The Holy One of Israel, as he is frequently called.

To Christ, to whom, as he was in the dayes of his Flesh, this description doth most truly and fully agree, being the same in effect with that, Isa. 5[illegible: 1+ letters]. 3. for men, both Iews and Gentiles among whom he lived did despise him from their very hearts and souls, as is here implied; and the whole Nation, of which he was a member, and among whom he conversed and preached, abhorred both his Person & his Doctrine; and he was so far from being a great temporal Monarch, as the Iews vainly imagined, that he came in the form of a Servant, and was a Servant of Rulers, professing subjection and paying tribute unto Caesar, Mat. 17. 24, 25. & 22. 21. and being treated by the Rulers both of the Iews, and of the Romans, like a Servant, being despitefully used and Crucified, which was the proper Punishment of Servants.

Though for a time thou shalt be despised, yet after a while thou shalt be advanced to such Royal Majesty and Glory, that Kings shall look upon thee with admiration and reverence.

From their seats in token of reverence, as was usual, Levit. 19. 32. Iudg. 3. 20. Iob 29. 8. or to worship thee, as the next clause explains it, shall see and arise may be put for when they see thee they shall arise to thee: which is a common Hebraism.

Because God shall make good his promise, to thee concerning thee raising thee from the dead, and concerning the effusion of his Spirit upon thy Disciples by whose assistance they shall preach most powerfully, and confirm their Doctrine by evident and glorious miracles, and concerning the giving unto thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession, as he promised, Psal. 2. 8. These and such like considerations were the great motives which prevailed with the Princes and People of the Gentiles▪ to receive thee as the true Messiah and Saviour of the World.

And although thou shalt be rejected by thine own People, and refused by their Builders or Rulers, as was Prophesied, Psal. 118. 22. and for a time, and in some respects forsaken by God himself, Mat. 27. 46. yet God will return to thee and chuse thee again, and manifest unto the World, that thou, and thou onely art the Person whom God hath chosen to be the Redeemer of mankind, and whom, in spight of all opposition, he will make the head-stone of the Corner. For the Phrase see on Isa. 48. 10. But these words are well rendred by others, who will chuse or hath chosen thee, the conjunction, and, being put for the pronoun relative, as Isa. 44. 14. and in many other places, as hath been observed before.

Marginal references: Or, to him that is despised in soul.