John Trapp on Isaiah 8:11

Ver. 11. For the Lord ſpake thus to me with a ſtrong hand] that is, with his ſpirit accompanying his word, and ſetting it home to my heart, that ſo I might ſpeak from the heart to the heart. Some render it, Taking me by the hand, fidelis paedagogi inſtar, Sicut apprehenſione manus. like a loving and faithful ſchoolmaſter: and thereby pulling me back that I ſhould not walk in the common road.

That I ſhould not walk in the way of this people] not howle with thoſe wolves, not tune my fiddle to the baſe of the times, not follow a multitude to do evil: but rather to keep a conſtant countermotion to the Many; and rather to go right alone then not at all. Caſſianus gives very good Counſel, Vive ut pauci, In Epiſt. ut cum paucis inveniri merearis in regno Dei, Live thou as but few elſe do, that with thoſe few thou maiſt be found in Gods Kingdom. Now none can do thus, but onely they to whom the Lord both ſpeaketh, and layeth hold alſo upon their hand that they be not led away with the errour of the wicked, 2 Pet. 3.17.