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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. 5. For my sword shall be drunken in the heavens: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, even upon the people of my* curse, to judgement.
Vers. 5. For my sword shall be drunken in the heauens: behold, it shall come downe vpon Edom, euen vpon the people of my* curse, to iudgement.
- *Or, discomfiture, in judgement.Or, discomfiture, in iudgement.
HE saith that the sword of the Lord is drunk with blood, as when one hath made a great slaughter, swords are bathed in blood. And that the speech might have the more force,1 he brings in the Lord himself uttering of it.2 But why, saith he, it is in heaven? For God calls not men up thither to punish them, but executes his judgements here below in earth, §1and that by the hands of men. But the Prophet respects that secret counsel of God, by which he deliberates and ordains all things before the execution thereof: he understands it not then of the act it self, but commends the efficacy of his own prophecy, in regard that by the immutable counsel of God this §2