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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. 9. Therefore will I weep with the weeping of Jaazer, and of the vine of Sibmah: O Heshbon and Elealeh I will make thee drunk with my tears, because upon thy summer fruits, and upon thy harvest a shouting is fallen.
Vers. 9. Therefore wil I weep with the weeping of Iaazer, and of the vine of Sibmah: O Heshbon and Elealeh I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy summer fruites, and vpon thy haruest a shouting is fallen.
Here the Prophet takes another person upon him, as we have noted before: for he sorrows and complains in the person of the Moabites. I deny not but the faithful have always trembled at Gods judgements, neither could they ever so put off the bowels of pity, but they had still compassion upon the wicked; yet doth he not describe his private affections here: but his meaning is, to get authority to his doctrine, that none might doubt of the accomplishment of it. And therefore he represents the sorrow and heaviness which they should all feel after ⟨p. 175⟩the discomfiture (as it were upon a scaffold) in the person of a Moabite; and all to the end he might the better confirm the Jews in the truth of this promise, which might otherwise have seemed incredible unto them.
HEere the Prophet takes another person vpon him, as we haue noted before: for he sorrowes and complaines in the person of the Moabites. I deny not but the faithfull haue alwaies trembled at Gods iudgements, neither could they euer so put off the bowels of pitie, but they had still compassion vpon the wicked; yet doth he not describe his priuate affections here: but his meaning is, to get authoritie to his doctrine, that none might doubt of the accomplishment of it. And therefore he represents the sorrow and heauinesse which they should all feele after