Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Isaiah 54

^{1 b} The Church in this her afliction & captiuitie shal bring forth mo children then when she was at libertie: or this may be spoken by admiration considering the great nomber that shulde come of her. Her deliuerance vnder Cyrus was as her childe hode, & therefore this was accomplished, when she came to her age, which was vnder the Gospel.

^{1 !} Mo of the Gentiles shal beleue the Gospel then of the Jewes.

^{1 a} After that he hathe declared the death of Christ, he speaketh to the Church, because it shulde fele the frute of the same, & calleth her baren, because that in the captiuitie she was as a widowe without hope to haue anie children.

^{2 c} Signifying, that for the great nomber of children, that God shulde giue her, she shulde seme to lacke roume to lodge them.

^{4 e} When as you wast refused for they sinnes, {Chap. 50,1}.

^{4 d} The afflictions which thou suffred at the beginning.

^{5 f} That did regenerate thee by his holy Spirit.

^{5 g} His glorie shal shine through the whole worlde, which semed before to be shut vp in Judea.

^{6 h} As a wife which wast forsaken in thy youth.

^{7 !} God leaueth hes for a time, to whome afterward he sheweth mercie.

^{9 i} As sure as the promes that I made to Noah, that the waters shulde no more ouerflowe the earth.

^{11 k} Hereby he declareth the execellente state of the Church vnder Christ.

^{12 /} Or, jaspar, or, pearle.

^{13 l} By the hearing of his worde & inward moving of his Spirit.

^{14 m} In stabilitie and surenes so that it shal stand for euer.

^{14 N} And therefore shal not preuaile.

^{15 o} Meaning, the domestical enemies of the CHurch as are the hypocrites.

^{16 p} Signifying hereby that man can do nothing but so farre as God giueth power: for seing that all are his creatures, he must nedes gouerne and guide them.