Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 66:8

8 Who hath heard such a thing ? who hath seen such things ? shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a Nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travelled, she brought forth children ?

The Prophet calls either to the whole world, or to such as feared God amongst the Iews, to admire God in his stupendious works of Providence, either in the easie manner of the deliverance of the Jews out of the Captivity of Babylon, without any pain, without so much as one throw; or else in the erecting of his Gospel Church, into which all the Jews that received Christ, were gathered as well as the Gentiles making both one, Eph. 2. 14.

Which seems to be meant by the Earths bringing forth in one day as great a work of Providence, as if all the women in the world should have brought forth in a day; or as if all the plants of the Earth had brought [illegible: 1 word] their flowers and fruit in one day.

As soon as the Church of the Jews began to move out of the Captivity of Babylon, God put it into the hearts of multitudes to go up, Exod. 1. 5 ch. 2. 1, 2, &c. Or, as soon as the voice of the Gospel put the Church of the Jews into her Travel in Iohn the Baptists, Christ's, and the Apostles times, it presently brought [illegible: 1+ letters]orth. In Iohn Baptist's time, the Kingdom of Heaven suffered violence, and the violent took it by force, Mat. 11. 12. and it continued so, as 3000 were converted at Peters Sermon, Acts 2. The Gentiles were the Children of Zion, being planted into their stock▪ the law of the Gospel first going out of Zion.