Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 52

Isaiah 52:1 ^! A consolation to the people of God.

Isaiah 52:1 ^a No wicked tyrant which shal subuert Gods true religion & oppresse the consciences.

Isaiah 52:2 ^b Put of the garments of sorowe & heauines, & put on the apparel of joy & gladnes.

Isaiah 52:3 ^c The Babylonians paied no thing to me for you: therefore I wil take you againe without ransome.

Isaiah 52:4 ^d When Jaakob went thether in time of famine.

Isaiah 52:4 ^e The Egyptians might pretend some cause to oppresse my people because thei went thether and remained among them, but the Assyrians haue no title to excuse their tyrannie by: and therefore wil I punish them more then I did the Egyptians.

Isaiah 52:5 ^f To wit, by the wicked, wihch thinke that I haue no power to deliuer them.

Isaiah 52:7 ^! Of the messengers thereof.

Isaiah 52:7 ^g Signifying that the joye and good tidings fo their deliuerance shulde make their affliction in the meane time more easy: but this is chiefly ment of the spiritual joy, as {Nah 1,15} {rom. 10,35}.

Isaiah 52:8 ^h The Prophets which are thy watchmen shal publish this thy deliuerance: this was begon vnder Zerubbabel, Ezra, & Nehehiah, but was accomplished vnder Christ.

Isaiah 52:10 ⁱ As ready to smite his enemies & to deliuer his people.

Isaiah 52:11 ^k He warneth the fairhful not to pollute them selues with the superstitions of the Babylonians, as {Chapt 48, 20}, {2 Cor 6,17}

Isaiah 52:11 ^l For the time is at hand, that the Priests and Leuites, chiefly (and so by them all the people which shalbe as Leuites in this office) shal cary home theressels of the Temple, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken away.

Isaiah 52:12 ^m As your fathers did out of Egypt.

Isaiah 52:13 ⁿ Meaning, Christ by whome our spiritual deliuerance shulde be wroght, whereof this was a signe.

Isaiah 52:14 ^r By the preaching of the Gospel.

Isaiah 52:14 ^q In signe of reuerence, and as being astonished at his excellencie.

Isaiah 52:14 ^o In the corrupt judgement of man Christ in his persone was not estemed.

Isaiah 52:14 ^p He shal spread his word through manie nations.