Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 66:7

7 Before she travailed she brought forth, before her pain came, she was delivered of a manchild .

The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his Church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man-child before her travel, and without pain. The onely doubt is, whether it referreth to the deliverance of the People out of Babylon, or the worlds surprizal with the Messiah, and the sudden and strange propagation of the Gospel, and it is a question not easily determined. The delivery of the Jews out of Babylon, indeed was without struglings or any pain, not like their deliverance from Egypt, after the wasting of their enemies by ten successive Plagues but by the kind Proclamation of Cyrus, but it seems not to have been sudden only as to the day, & hour, & manner, for Daniel understood by Books that the time was come, Dan. 9. 2. and the people had a prospect of it 70 years before, Ier. 25. 12. & 29. 10. The Prophecy therefore seems rather to refer to the coming of Christ, and the sudden propagation of the Gospel. The Popish Interpreters applying it to the Virgin Mary bringing forth Christ is like other of their [illegible: 1+ letters]ond dreams.