Isaiah 57:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Draw near hither, to God's tribunal, to answer for yourselves, and to hear what I have to say against you, and to receive your sentence. Sons of the sorceress; not by propagation, but by imitation; such being frequently called a man or woman's sons that learn their art, and follow their example: you sorcerers, either properly or metaphorically so called; for the Jews were guilty of it both ways. The seed of the adulterer and the whore; not the genuine children of Abraham, as you pretend and boast, but begotten in fornication upon a common whore; which is not to be understood properly, but figuratively, because their dispositions and carriages were far more suitable to a bastardly brood than to Abraham's seed.