John Trapp on Isaiah 41:19-20

Ver. 19. I will plant in the wilderneſſe the cedar, &c.] That is, ſaith Lyra, I will give variety of graces to my people.Per varia ligna varietatem gratiarum inſinuat. Oecol.

And the Box-tree] That groweth of it ſelf in wild places, ſaith Diodate: to ſignify that the Church will alwaies have worldly wild plants, mixed and growing in it. Box is alwayes green indeed and full of leaves: but its of an ill ſmell, & ſemen habet omnibus inviſum animantibus, and of a worſe ſeed.

Sphinx Philoſ. Ver. 20. That they may ſee and know and conſider] Heb. lay. 1. Lay it upon their heart: which natural men are very hardly drawn to do. The beſt are ſo backward, that an Ezekiel may hear, Son of man, behold with thine eye, and hear with thine ears, and ſet thine heart upon all that I ſhall ſhew thee, &c. chap. 40.4. and Hagget calleth upon the good people of his time to conſider, and better conſider, chap. 1.5, 7.