And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
And as Esaias said ('hath said') before - meaning probably in an earlier part of his book, namely, Romans 1:9.
Except the Lord of Sabaoth - i:e., 'the Lord of Hosts:' the word is Hebrew, but occurs so in the Epistle of James (Romans 5:4), and has thence become naturalized in our Christian phraseology.
Had left us a seed - meaning 'a remnant,' small at first, but in due time to be a seed of plenty (cf Psalms 22:30-31; Isaiah 6:12-13),
We had been ('become') as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. But for this precious seed, the chosen people would have resembled the cities of the plain, both in degeneracy of character and in merited doom.