A17640:1261
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. 7. The grass in the river, and at the* head of the rivers, and all that groweth by the river shall wither, and be driven away, and be no more.
Vers. 7. The grasse in the riuer, and at the* head of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.
- *Or, mouth.
AT the mouth.] Others translate, Rivers: but he understands it rather of the spring it self, which is seldom or never drawn dry; although it may fall out that floods and rivers may wax dry. He takes the mouth then for the head of the river, which shall so dry up, that no place in the Country shall be watered by it. And howsoever the head of Nilus was very far off, yet is it not without cause, that the Prophet threatens that this river, from whose overflowing the fertility almost of the whole land proceeded, should be dried up, even to the very head and spring it self. For it seldom rained in this Country; but Nilus performed that office for them every year: and fit overflowed but sparingly, it presaged want and famine. This is the reason why the Prophet threatening the drithe of it threatens therein the barrenness of the whole Country. And for this cause also he saith, that there shall be such want even in the •ead it self, from whence the waters should flow forth, that the grass shall be dried up.