A17640:1992
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. 3. But the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame: and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Now he shows what the end of the wicked shall be that despised God and his word, and followed such counsels as themselves liked: to wit, that all their enterprises whatsoever should turn to their overthrow. He also threatens them that they shall not not only be left frustrate of their hope, but that they shall also go to seek that with great loss and confusion, which should bring them nothing in the end but shame and sorrow.
NOw he shewes what the end of the wicked shall be that despised God and his word, and followed such counsels as themselues liked: to wit, that all their enterprises whatsoeuer should turne to their ouerthrow. He also threatens them that they shall not not only be left frustrate of their hope, but that they shall also goe to seeke that with great losse and confusion, which should bring them nothing in the end but shame and sorrow.
This must be always the lot of the wicked, for howsoever for a time they seem to be wholly at their ease, and that all things fall ⟨p. 298⟩out according to their desire; yet in the end the same things shall turn to their ruin. This is the just reward of their presumption, when they dare to pass the bounds of Gods word: for things attained by unlawful means, shall never bring profit to the possessors.