Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 54

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.

Isaiah 54:1 ^! Mo of the Gentiles shal beleue the Gospel then of the Jewes.

Isaiah 54:1 ^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.

Isaiah 54:2 ^c Signifying, that for the great nomber of children, that God shulde giue her, she shulde seme to lacke roume to lodge them.

Isaiah 54:4 ^e When as you wast refused for they sinnes, {Chap. 50,1}.

Isaiah 54:4 ^d The afflictions which thou suffred at the beginning.

Isaiah 54:5 ^f That did regenerate thee by his holy Spirit.

Isaiah 54:5 ^g His glorie shal shine through the whole worlde, which semed before to be shut vp in Judea.

Isaiah 54:6 ^h As a wife which wast forsaken in thy youth.

Isaiah 54:7 ^! God leaueth hes for a time, to whome afterward he sheweth mercie.

Isaiah 54:9 ⁱ As sure as the promes that I made to Noah, that the waters shulde no more ouerflowe the earth.

Isaiah 54:11 ^k Hereby he declareth the execellente state of the Church vnder Christ.

Isaiah 54:12 ^/ Or, jaspar, or, pearle.

Isaiah 54:13 ^l By the hearing of his worde & inward moving of his Spirit.

Isaiah 54:14 ^m In stabilitie and surenes so that it shal stand for euer.

Isaiah 54:14 ^N And therefore shal not preuaile.

Isaiah 54:15 ^o Meaning, the domestical enemies of the CHurch as are the hypocrites.

Isaiah 54:16 ^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.