Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 60:22

22 A little one shall become a thousand , and a small one a strong nation : I the LORD will hasten it in his time .

Though of very small beginning and contemptible, yet shall greatly multiply: Though the Church at first will be but a very few, yet will it encrease into many thousands, this plant or seed will spring up to many; some understand it, that many shall be converted, and brought into the Church by men of very few, low, and mean parts; however these things seem to agree better to some state of the Church here, then to the state of the Church Triumphant.

If this signify not the same with the other, as probably it may, the word strong signifying numerous, Io[illegible: 1+ letters]l 1. 6. then we may understand it, that as the former respected their number, so this their strength.

viz. In due time, the time that I have appointed. q. d. Let not this be doubted because I have undertaken it, to whom nothing is difficult, when the time of the promise comes, he will make hast, it will be done speedily; or, as soon as it begins, it shall hasten apace, as it did in Peters Sermon, 3000 in one day, Acts 2. and 5000 in another, Acts 4. and so soon filled the whole world, and one Paul planted whole Churches, as the people in Egypt increased from 70 Persons to a vast multitude.