John Trapp on Isaiah 51:1

CHAP. LI.

Ver. 1. HEarken unto me ye that fellow after righteouſneſſe] Heb. ye that purſue or follow hard after it, as Paul did, Philip. 3. The ſpeech is directed to thoſe Jews that embraced the Goſpel: perſwading them to perſiſt in the faith, in nothing terrified by their adverſaries, ſith Almighty God would keep and help them, as he had done faithful Abraham and Sarah, their Anceſtours:Banim meabanim. to whom alſo he would of ſtones raiſe up ſons in the converſion of the Gentiles, and could do it as eaſily as he had hewed the Hebrews, that great Nation, out of aged Abraham, and ſuperannuated Sarah; who are here compared to a dry-rock, and a deep pit.

And to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged] Eſt honeſta periphraſis actus conjugalis. The word here uſed is of the ſame root with Nekebah the female kind of all creatures.