A17640:3706
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. 3. I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make a sack their covering.
Vers. 3. I clothe the heauens with darknes, and make a sack their couering.
HE also mentions the thick darkness which was spread over the whole land of Egypt for the space of three days,1 Exod. 10.22. for then the heavens were in a manner clothed with mourning weeds, because as a fair and clear day glads our hearts, so a dark and gloomy day brings sadness & heaviness with it. Therefore it is said that the heavens were covered with a sack, or with a mourning garment, as signs and testimonies of affliction. And if any had rather take them for general sentences, he may do so if he will. But as I think the Prophet hath respect to the history touching their deliverance out of Egypt. From whence they might gather, that God who had delivered their fathers after so wonderful a manner, was now letted from succouring them in the miseries which oppressed them, by reason of their own unthankfulness.
HE also mentions the thick darknes which was spread ouer the whole land of Egypt for the space of three daies,1 Exod. 10.22. for then the heauens were in a maner clothed vvith mourning vveeds, because as a faire and cleare day glads our hearts, so a darke and gloomie day brings sadnes & heauines with it. Therefore it is said that the heauens vvere couered vvith a sack, or with a mourning garment, as signes and testimonies of affliction. And if any had rather take them for generall sentences, he may do so if he will. But as I thinke the Prophet hath respect to the historie touching their deliuerance out of Egypt. From whence they might gather, that God who had deliuered their fathers after so wonderfull a maner, was now letted from succoring thē in the miseries which oppressed them, by reason of their owne vnthankfulnes.