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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. 7. That thou mayest open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Vers. 7. That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darknes out of the prison house.
Isaiah recites here more at large to what end Christ shall be sent of the Father,1 that we may the better perceive what fruit we shall reap by the same, and how necessary his help is. Now he taxeth all men of blindness, 2to the end we should acknowledge it, if we mean to be illuminate by Jesus Christ. To be short,3 he shows under these borrowed speeches what our condition is, till Christ appears for our redemption: to wit, that we are all miserable, poor, and destitute of all good things; environed, and overwhelmed with infinite miseries, till Christ hath set us ⟨p. 437⟩free from them. But howsoever the words be here directed unto Christ, yet the intent of the Prophet is thereby to instruct the faithful,4 and to teach them that it is in Christ, and in none but him, upon whom they must depend, and to assure them that the remedy of all their evils is ready at hand, if so be they seek unto him for succour. For the Prophet sets not Christ to school here, as if he stood in need either of instruction, or of a commandment: but he speaks to him for our sakes, that we might know wherefore he is sent of the Father: as it is in the second Psalm, I will preach the decree: ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thy possession.