John Trapp on Isaiah 41:1

CHAP. XLI.

Ver. 1. Keep ſilence before me O Iſlands] i. e. O Iſlanders (ſo the Hebrews called all that were beyond ſea to them) with whom God, being about to conteſt, calleth for ſilence that he may be heard. The people of Rome could hardly digeſt a [non-Latin text not transcribed] or Keep ſilence from their Emperour Adrian, Dio in Adrian. as too ſevere: but when God thundreth it, men wriggle into their holes as ſo many wormes.

And let the people renew their ſtrength] Come as ſtrong as they can into the Court, with their beſt Advocates and arguments; ſith they are to debate the cauſe concerning their Religion.

Let them come near together in Judgement] This is a wonderfull condeſcention: En in quantum ſe demittat Deus!