Isaiah 57:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And shalt say, &c.— And he said, or, And a voice says, &c. These are the words of the prophetic chorus, relating that a voice had gone forth, or a command of God, to prepare the way, and to remove all stumbling-blocks from it; that is to say, to reform the church from that state of corruption which is described in the preceding verses; a work of as great difficulty as importance, and the prediction whereof well deserved to be introduced in the sublime manner that we here find it. The reformation of the church from Popish error and superstition is an event too well known, and too highly valued, to need speaking of in this place. As an instance of the stumbling-blocks removed from the church, the reader may consult the hundred grievances proposed to Pope Adrian by the princes of Germany in the year 1523; when the faith was purged from errors, and the light of the Gospel restored to the Christian world. See Vitringa.