Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 51

Isaiah 51:1 (!) To trust in God alone by Abrahams example.

Isaiah 51:1 (a) He comforteth the Church, that thei shulde not be discouraged for their smale nomber.

Isaiah 51:1 (b) That is, to Abraham of whome ye were begotten & to Sarah of whome ye were borne.

Isaiah 51:3 (c) As plentiful as Paradise, {Genes 2,3}.

Isaiah 51:4 (d) I wil rule, & gouerne my Church by worde, and doctrine.

Isaiah 51:5 (e) The time, that I wil accomplish my promes.

Isaiah 51:5 (f) My power, and strength.

Isaiah 51:6 (g) He forewarneth them of the horrible changes & mutations of all things, & how he wil preserue his Church in the middes of all these dangers.

Isaiah 51:7 (!) Not to feare men.

Isaiah 51:9 (h) He putteth them in temebrance of his great benefite for their deliuerance out of Egypt htat thereby they might learne to trust in him constantly

Isaiah 51:9 (i) Meaning Egypt {Psal 27,4}.

Isaiah 51:9 (k) To wit, Pharaoh, {Exe 29,3}.

Isaiah 51:11 (l) From Babylon.

Isaiah 51:14 (m) He comforteth them by the short time of their banishement: for in seventie yeres they were restored and the greatest empire of the worlde destroyed.

Isaiah 51:16 (n) Meaning, of Isaiah, and of all true ministers, who are defended by his protection.

Isaiah 51:16 (o) That all things may be restored in heauen, and earth, {Ephes 1,10}

Isaiah 51:17 (!) The great affliction of Jerusalem, & her deliuerance.

Isaiah 51:17 (p) Thou hast bene justely punished and sufficiently, as {Chap 40,2} and this punishement in the elect is by measure, & according as God giueth grace to beare it: but in the reprobatre it is the just vengeance of God to driue them to an insensiblenes & madnes, as {Jerem. 25, 15}.

Isaiah 51:19 (q) Whereof the one is outward, as of the things that come to the body: as warre & famine: & the other is inward, & apperteineth to the minde: that is, to be without comfort: therefore he saith, how shalt thou be comforted?

Isaiah 51:21 (r) But with trouble & feare.