Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 60:17

17 For brass I will bring gold , and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace , and thine exactours righteousness .

Here is the effect of the former promise, thy poverty shall be turned to riches, all things shall be altered for the best, an allusion to the days of Solomon, when gold was as brass: thus on the Contrary, when they change for the worse in the state, it useth to be expressed by the like Metap[illegible: 1+ letters]ors, Ch. 1. 21, 22, 23.

i. e. Loving, Me[illegible: 1+ letters]k and Peaceable, the Abstract put for the Concrete, as is usual, whether you understand it of Under-officers, they shall be Officers of peace, or, of Governours, thou shalt have a peaceable Government, as was made good to them under Ezra, Nehemiah, Zoro[illegible: 1+ letters]abel, and such like.

Most righteous, as before peace for peaceable, the Church is not freed from Taxes, and paiments, that is given by Christ and Peter unto Caesar, but it shall be without oppression▪ and grinding; no more then is necessary, and not exacted rigorously; though all these were made good in their return out of Babylon, yet doth it more properly relate to the meliorating of the Church under the Gospel wherein instead of carnal Ceremonies, she had Spiritual Ordinances, which is the scope of the Apostle, Heb. 9. and larger measures of the holy Spirit and should have such Officers as would speak peace to the Consciences by discovering the compleat, and perfect righteousness of him, who fulfilled all righteousness.