A17640:3204
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. 18. They have not known, nor understand: for* God hath shut their eyes that they can not see, and their hearts that they can not understand.
Vers. 18. They haue not knowne, nor vnderstand: for* God hath shut their eyes that they can not see, and their hearts that they can not vnderstand.
- *Or, he.
His conclusion is,1 that it were impossible for men endued with common reason to be thus reasonless, if God had not shut up both their eyes and hearts. For had they but a dram of wit in their heads, they must of necessity be drawn to consider how absurd a thing it is to worship a fragment of that wood which themselves had burned, and with their own eyes saw it consumed to ashes before them. But in as much as they neither know nor understand any thing, nor will be brought to believe their own senses,2 a man may well conclude, that they are become beasts: for this ignorance wherewith Isaiah reproacheth them, is as much as if he had said; They are beasts in the form of men. And howsoever ever many among them were otherwise sharp witted enough, yet in this behalf they were more then sufficiently convinced of their brutish senselessness.