John Trapp on Isaiah 6:12-13

Ver. 12. And the Lord have removed men far away] Judaea lay utterly waſte for 70. years: inſomuch that after the ſlaughter of Gedaliah, when all, man, woman, and child fled into Aegypt, there was not a Jew left in the Countrey. And in that laſt deſolation by the Romans, ſuch affliction befell them as never had been from the beginning, nor ſhall be to the worlds end, Mar. 13 19.Joſeph. After Titus had ſlain a thouſand thouſand of them, and carryed away Captive 900000. more, Adrian the Emperour, for their ſedition under Barchochach, drove all the Jews utterly out of Jury, ſet a ſow of white Marble over the chief gate of Jeruſalem in reproach of their Religion, and by Proclamation forbad them ſo much as to look toward that land from any high Tower or Mountain. Howbeit they afterwards obtained leave to go in once a year, and bewail the deſtruction of their Temple, giving a peice of money to the Souldiers: and at this day when or wherever they build an houſe, they uſe to leave about a yard-ſquare of it unplaiſtered,Leo Modena. on which they write Zecher lechorban, The memory of the Deſolation.

It may be rendred Gods Tenth. But what meant Lyra to argue from hence that Tythes are due to the Church?Ver. 13. But yet in it ſhall be a tenth] i. e. ſome Elect left in the land for a reſerve. And theſe are called a Tenth, 1. Becauſe, as the Tenths, they are conſecrated to God, Levit. 27. 2. Becauſe but a few: So that God may ſay as once of the cured Lepers, Where are the other nine? Such were thoſe that looked for the Conſolation of Iſrael when Chriſt came in the fleſh, Zachary, Simeon, Anna, the Maries, Joſeph of Arimathea, the Apoſtles, Peters Converts, &c.

And it ſhall return and ſhall be eaten] Or, it ſhall, after its return again, be burnt up or removed: ſo they were to ſome purpoſe by the Romans. See on ver. 12.

As a Toyle-tree, or as an Oak] Trees that are durae ac durabiles, hard and long-laſting: and although they loſe their fruit and leaves, or be cut down, yet

Their ſubſtance is in them] the ſubſtance of the matter, the ſap remaineth in the Trunk and Root.In radice & caudice. Junius. Piſcator. Some think there is an alluſion in this Text to a Bank or Cauſey that went from the Kings Houſe to the Temple, and was born up with Trees planted on either ſide of it: which Trees as they kept up the Cauſey, ſo do the godly the State, 1 Chron. 26.16, 18. 1 King. 10.5. 2 Chron. 9.11. Semen ſanctuus ſtatumen terrae.