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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. 8. Yet thou heardst them not, neither diddest thou know them; neither yet was thine ear opened of old: for I knew that thou wouldest grievously transgress; therefore have I called thee* a transgressor from the womb.
Vers. 8. Yet thou heardst them not, neither diddest thou know them; neither yet was thine eare opened of old: for I knew that thou wouldest grieuously transgresse; therfore haue I called thee* a transgressor from the wombe.
- *Or, a rebel.Or, a rebell.
The Prophets meaning is,1 that the Lord hath not insisted so long upon this matter without cause, but hath been thus instant in exhorting the people, to the end they might acknowledge that they were chastised, and in the end delivered from all their miseries, by the immediate hand of God. For they (being of an obstinate nature) might complain, that it was needless to trouble their heads with so many repetitions of one and the same thing. The Prophet answers, that it is no wonder, seeing he hath to deal with a sort of transgressors: and thus in other words, he confirms that which he said in the fourth verse, touching the iron sinew. The sum is, that God knowing the perversity of this people, omitted no good means to win them to his obedience: by how much the more then they have been convinced by sufficient and infallible testimonies, so much the less shall they be excusable before him. Now having pulled off their visor of holiness, to wit, their glorying in the name of Israel, (as in the first verse) he imposeth upon them a more proper name, and flatly calls them rebels.