A17640:1709
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. 14. *The dead shall not live,* neither shall the dead arise,* because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memory.
Vers. 14. *The dead shall not liue,* neither shall the dead arise,* because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memorie.
- *Or, being dead they &c:
- *Or, being slain they shall not &c.Or, being slaine they shall not &c.
- *Or, for this cause thou hast &c.
The Prophet comes again to speak of the woeful end of the wicked, whose prosperous estate often disquiets and dismays us, as we may see in the 37. Psal. and in the 73.17. That our eyes then may not be dazzled in the beholding of present things, the Prophet threatens that their end shall be most woeful. Others expound this place of the faithful, who seem so to die in the eyes of the world, as if they should never rise again: but it is very clear that he here speaks of the wicked and reprobates, which will evidently appear by the contrary to this, which is added in the 19. verse. For we have in this place an opposition between the resurrection of the good, and the bad, whose estates would be little differing one from another, unless it should appear that the one sort were judged to eternal death,