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Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah
A commentary upon the prophecy of Isaiah. By Mr. John Calvin. Whereunto are added four tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vers. 15. But thou shalt be brought down to the grave, to the sides of the pit.
Vers. 15. But thou shalt be brought downe to the graue, to the sides of the pit.
HE hath heretofore showed, how it was the King of Babel that enterprised to set his seat above the clouds. And now he opposeth an event quite contrary; to wit, the sides of the pit, or cave, that is to say, some corner of the sepulchre into which he should be cast. For he said before, that this tyrant would ascend above the mountain of Zion in the sides of the north, because the place on this side was high above the rest. Now he takes this word sides in a contrary sense, as if he should say, that he shall be put in the most contemptible place of the pit or sepulchre, even as when a man thrusts one into some dark or by-corner. For if so be a sepulchre be large and spacious, they desire to lay the honorablest personage in the midst of it: but he saith, that this fellow shall be cast into some hole, or into the sides that shall be left empty. See how the Lord scorns the pride of the wicked from an high, so as when they shall have devoured all by their covetousness, and pierced the clouds & the heavens with their pride, yet will he expose them to derision at the length, having overturned all their enterprises even in less then the twinkling of an eye.
HE hath heretofore shewed, how it was the King of Babel that enterprised to set his seate aboue the cloudes. And now he opposeth an euent quite contrarie; to wit, the sides of the pit, or caue, that is to say, some corner of the sepulchre into which he should be cast. For he said before, that this tyrant would ascend aboue the mountaine of Zion in the sides of the north, because the place on this side was high aboue the rest. Now he takes this word sides in a contrarie sense, as if he should say, that he shall be put in the most contemptible place of the pit or sepulchre, euen as when a man thrusts one into some darke or by-corner. For if so be a sepulchre be large and spatious, they desire to lay the honorablest personage in the midst of it: but he saith, that this fellow shall be cast into some hole, or into the sides that shall be left emptie. See how the Lord scornes the pride of the wicked from an high, so as when they shall haue deuoured all by their couetousnes, and pierced the cloudes & the heauens with their pride, yet will he expose them to derision at the length, hauing ouerturned all their enterprises euē in lesse then the twinkling of an eye.