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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. 20. Thy sons have fainted, and lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net, and are full of the wrath of the Lord, and rebuke of thy God.
Vers. 20. Thy sonnes haue fainted, and lie at the head of all the streetes as a wild bull in a net, and are full of the wrath of the Lord, and rebuke of thy God.
HE sets forth this sorrowful condition of the Church at large, when he saith,1 that her sons lie prostrate. What sorrow is more bitter to a natural mother then to see the throats of her children cut, and not only one or two of them, but the streets to be paved with the multitudes of them thus slain? He adds a similitude taken from a Bear, or from some other wild beasts, thereby showing, that the strongest among the Jews were snarled as it were in the nets.
HE sets forth this sorrowfull condition of the Church at large, when he saith,1 that her sonnes lie prostrate. What sorrow is more bitter to a naturall mother then to see the throtes of her children cut, and not only one or two of them, but the streetes to be paued with the multitudes of them thus slaine? He addes a similitude taken from a Beare, or from some other wilde beasts, thereby shewing, that the strongest among the Iewes were snarled as it were in the nets.
- 1A misery to a mother to see her sons slain, from whom she expects succour.