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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. 17. When he bringeth out the chariot and horse, the army and the power lie together, and shall not rise: they are extinct and quenched as tow.
Vers. 17. When hee bringeth out the chariot and horse, the armie and the power lie together, and shall not rise: they are extinct and quenched as towe.
Now he shows that neither munition, nor strength can resist God, or hinder him from delivering his people when he thinks good, no more then the s•a was able to let him from saving them: but he divided the same, and drowned thei• enemies with their chariots and horses therein. See here then an amplification of the former verse as if he should say; Be it that the whole world have conspired your destruction, and would hinder me from working your deliverance; shall it not be in vain? For when I list, I will not only find out a passage for you in the midst of bottomless gulfs, but I will also scatter and overthrow all force and power of your enemies: yea, I will so dash them in sunder, that they shall never be able to arise. It may be he that hath lost one victory, will gather his forces afresh together the second time, and win that he lost before: but the Lord in this place promiseth a perpetual victory; showing that their enemies shall be so discomfited, that they shall be utterly extinct. Which sudden destruction he further expresseth by the similitude of tow: when fire is put to tow, it may well make a blaze for a while, but forthwith it is consumed and gone.
NOw he shewes that neither munition, nor strength can resist God, or hinder him from deliuering his people when hee thinks good, no more then the s•a was able to let him from sauing them: but hee diuided the same, and drowned thei enimies with their chariots and horses therein. See here then an amplification of the former verse as if he should say; Be it that the whole world haue conspired your destruction, and would hinder mee from working your deliuerance; shall it not be in vaine? For when I list, I will not onely find out a passage for you in the midst of bottomlesse gulphes, but I will also scatter and ouerthrow all force and power of your enemies: yea, I will so dash them in sunder, that they shall neuer be able to arise. It may be he that hath lost one victorie, will gather his forces afresh together the second time, and win that he lost before: but the Lord in this place promiseth a perpetuall victorie; shewing that their enemies shall bee so discomfited, that they shall be vtterly extinct. Which sudden destruction he further expresseth by the similitude of towe: when fire is put to towe, it may well make a blaze for a while, but forthwith it is consumed and gone.