Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Ver. 10. Go through, go through the gates.] Thus the prophet bespeaketh the teachers and keepers of the Church, with great alacrity of spirit, and most ardent affection; being, as it were, in a spiritual rapture. That which he exhorteth them to do, is rightly and faithfully to teach the people; and next, to take out of the way stumblingblocks, as Isa 57:14 such as are heresies, soul offences, &c., to the scandal of the weak, and scorn of the wicked.
Lift up a standard for the people,] q.d., Certa et solida urania constituite; settle all things fast and firm, that all men may be sure of their way, and what they ought to follow. It was a sad complaint of holy Melanchthon, Quos fugiamus habemus: quos sequamur, non intelligimus; but this lasted not long with those first famous reformers, whom the Lord soon set in a course.