A17640:2557
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. 26. Hast thou not heard how I have of old time made it, and have formed it long ago? And should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed and laid on ruinous heaps as Cities defenced?
Vers. 26. Hast thou not heard how I haue of old time made it, and haue formed it long agoe? And should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed and laid on ruinous heapes as Cities defenced?
The expositors for the most part expound this verse as if the Lord should say, That this Tyrant neither hath done nor shall do any thing but that he hath foretold by the mouth of his Prophet, and thus affirms, that himself is the author of these things. But I expound it otherwise; to wit, that Jerusalem shall be delivered by Gods assistance, because he is the protector of it: and that his speech might have the more weight, he names not the City, but useth the pronoun demonstrate, as if all other Cities were nothing in Gods account in comparison of this.
THe expositors for the most part expound this verse as if the Lord should say, That this Tyrant neither hath done nor shall doe any thing but that he hath foretold by the mouth of his Prophet, and thus affirmes, that himselfe is the author of these things. But I expound it otherwise; to wit, that Ierusalem shall be deliuered by Gods assistance, because he is the protector of it: and that his speech might haue the more weight, he names not the Citie, but vseth the pronoun demonstrait, as if all other Cities were nothing in Gods account in comparison of this.
Others refer these words, I have made it, to the deliverance which depended upon the secret counsel of God: but whosoever shall diligently weigh the scope of the Prophets words, will confess that it is here spoken of Jerusalem. God complained, as we have seen, that he was so despitefully blasphemed; and yet in reciting the words of Sennacherib he only mentioned Lebanon, and the quarters adjoining: now to show that under the name of Libanus, war was proclaimed against himself, he affirms (as in many other places) that Jerusalem was founded with his hand, and built at his command: whence it follows, that Sennacherib could not overthrow it, unless he first plucked God down from his throne.