Calvin’s Interpretation of Isaiah 2:1-4

Calvin understood this prophecy to be a "confirmation" of the "doctrine … concerning the restoration of the Church."* Calvin viewed this prophecy of the restoration of the church as a special vision added by God, " … by way of confirmation, in order to make it more certain and undoubted that, whatever calamities might arise, his Church never perish" (p. 90). That which God confirms by this vision is the promise revealed in Isaiah 1: 26 and 27, "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and...