Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

Vers. 17. Learn to do well: seek judgement, relieve the oppressed^*: judge the fatherless, and defend the widows.

Vers. 17. Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed^*: iudge the fatherlesse, and defend the widdowes.

1. *Or, him who is trampled underfoot.Or, him who is trampled vnderfoote.

Even a• immediately before, where he commanded them to abstain from evil, he therein comprehended a continual exercise thereof: as if he should say, Hitherto your whole life hath been nothing but a committing ⟨p. 13⟩of evil: now on the other side he teacheth them to be meek and courteous; and draws them to learn what it is: even as if he had had to do with new apprentices, and raw scholars. And first he commands them to seek judgement: others translate, Examine your selves; which I approve not. For by the word seek, he signifies a further thing, namely, an actual study, as they call it. Also by the word judgement he comprehends whatsoever is good and right, as if he should say, Study to be upright.

EVen a• immediatly before, where he commanded them to abstaine from euill, hee therein comprehended a continuall exercise thereof: as if hee should say, Hitherto your whole life hath been nothing but a committing ⟨p. 13⟩of euill: now on the otherside he teacheth them to bee meeke and curteous; and drawes them to learne what it is: euen as if he had had to doe with new apprentises, and raw schollers. And first he commands them to seeke iudgement: others translate, Examine your selues; which I approue not. For by the word seeke, hee signifies a further thing, namely, an actuall studie, as they call it. Also by the word iudgement he comprehends whatsoeuer is good and right, as if he should say, Study to be vpright.