Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 62:6

6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence ;

Understand by these, either 1. Angels, as they are called, Dan. 4. 13, 23. Or 2. Magistrates, see chap. 56. 10. Or rather 3. Ministers. When once the Church shall be restored again, God will undertake for its Safety and Protection, partly by Magistracy, and partly by Ministry, whom he here by a Metaphorical Allegory calls Watchmen, but the next words seem principally to intimate Spiritual Watchmen, thy spiritual safety, Heb. 13. 17. and said to be upon the Walls, as being thence able to espy dangers at the greater distance, Cant. 1. 7.

There shall be a most vigilant, and industrious Ministry, their constancy being intimated by Day and Night, either in Praying or Teaching, or warning, this being their Office.

i. e. Are his servants; To make mention of one▪ is, according to the Hebrew Phrase, to be servant to him of whom we make mention, ch. 26. 13. And here especially are meant his Servants in ordinary, his Remembrancers, either such as put God in mind of his Promise, like such Officers that great Men have about them on purpose to mind them of the publick affairs; Or, such as make the Lord to be remembred, putting his People in mind of him.

This seems to be the charge that he gives to his Watchmen, that they never prove remi[illegible: 1+ letters]s or negligent.

Marginal references: Ezek. 3. 17. & 33. 7.; [illegible: 1 word] that are the Lords remembrancers. Ch. 43. 26.