Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 63:8

8 For he said , Surely they are my people , children that will not lie , so he was their Saviour .

viz within himself of old, when he made a Covenant with our Fathers, and brought them out of Egypt.

In Covenant, though they are unworthy of me, yet I cannot but look upon them as my people, their enemies would persuade themselves, O they are not God's People, but cast ou[illegible: 1+ letters]s, that none cared for, or looked after, but God will own them.

That will keep my Covenant, they will not deal falsly with me, that are under such obligations, or, I presume they will not, though they did go after their Idols, and prove unfaithful to me in serving Baal and Ashteroth, &c. Now I presume they will do so no more; thus Parents are apt tenderly to think of those Children, that they have been indulgent to, that they will not offer to abuse their kindness, thus God thinks the best of them: or, he intimates here what they are obliged to do, though he knew they would do otherwise: or, they will not degenerate after I have renewed them.

viz. On these hopes and on these Conditions he undertook the charge of them, Exod. 19. 5, 6. Psal. 81. 8, 9. 10. or, he, so [illegible: 1+ letters]e alone was their Saviour, when none to save, none to uphold, then he saved them, not Cyrus Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, &c. But Christ himself.