Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 62:10

10 Go through, go through the gates ; prepare-ye the way of the people, cast up, cast up the high way, gather out the stones , lift up a standard for the people .

It is doubled by way of Emphasis, q. d. make hast to your own Land, as if Cyrus should say, get ye out of Captivity as soon as you will, ch. 48. 20. Or, it may intimate an invitation issued out from them at Ierusalem to those that were sca[illegible: 1+ letters]tered about in the Captivity, therein possibly typifying the going of Christs Disciples into the various parts of the World, to bring those that were scattered up and down into the Church. Or, go meet the Gentiles, whom God purposeth to bring into the Church, that by pure Doctrine, and your holy Lives they may be the sooner won.

Let them not have any obstructions in their way, he seems to call upon others to prepare the way for them; Thus Iohn was sent to prepare the way for Christ as was prophecied, ch. 40. 3. accordingly it is ordered to be cast up, see ch. 57. 14.

That there be no stumbling stone, or offence in their way: Or, q. d. go to and fro, and remove every scandal that they may boggle at, Rom. 14. 13. The former notes the [illegible: 1 word] of their [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] before; this the [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1+ letters]o [illegible: 1 word].

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Or, over the People.

Marginal references: Ch. 40. 3. & 57. 14.