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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.
THE V. CHAPTER.
Vers. 1. Now will I sing* to my beloved, a song of my beloved to his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard in a* very fruitful hill.
Vers. 1. Now will I sing* to my beloued, a song of my beloued to his vineyard. My beloued had a vineyard in a* very fruitfull hill.
- *Or, for.
- *Heb. Sonne of the oil, or of the fat.Heb. Sonne of the oyle, or of the fat.
The argument of this Chapter differs from the former. For the Prophets purpose is to set forth the estate of the children of Israel as it then was: to the end every one might take knowledge of his faults, and that by this means, shame and displeasure in themselves for their sins might provoke them to come to true and earnest repentance: as also that hereby they might behold their miserable condition as in a glass. For otherwise they would have flattered them elues too much in their vices, and would not have borne any admonitions at all. It was needful therefore that their brutishness should be painted out before them as in lively colours. But to the end he might procure himself the greater authority he useth this preface: for they were wont to write excellent and memorable things in verse; to the end every one might have it in their mouth, that so there might remain a perpetual remembrance of them.