Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 66:1

1 THus saith the LORD , The heaven is my throne , and the earth is my footstool : where is the house that ye build unto me ? and where is the place of my rest ?

The Heaven, that is, the highest Heavens, are the place where I most manifest my power and glory, and shew my self in my Majesty. So Psal. 11. 4. Psal. 103. 19. Matth. 5. 34. Hence we, are taught to pray; Our Father which art in Heaven.

And the Earth is my footstool, or place wherein I set my feet, Matth. 5. 35.

Can there be an house builded, that will contain me, who can encompass the Heavens and the Earth with an house?

Or, where is the place wherein I can be said to rest in a proper sense? The Ark [illegible: 1+ letters]deed called God's footstool, and the place of his rest, in a figurative sense, because there God manifested himself, though in degrees much beneath the manifestations of himself in Heaven, but properly, God hath no certain place of Rest.

Marginal references: 1 Ein. 8. 27. Act. 7. 48, 49. & 17. 24.