A17640:4355
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. 10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as one without eyes: we stumble at the noon day as in the twilight: we are in solitary places, as dead men.
Vers. 10. Wee grope for the wall like the blinde, and wee grope as one without eies: wee stumble at the noone day as in the twilight: we are in solitarie places, as dead men.
BY variety of phrases he expresseth one and the same thing.1 For in regard many complaints would be heard to pass from this people, he would omit nothing that might serve to lay forth their woeful calamities. It may be he utters these things as if he consented with them, that they were so indeed; as if he meant to say, Our matters are brought into wonderful straits: but we are above all things to consider the cause thereof, seeing we have deserved to be handled with much more severity. And yet the sense will not suit amiss if we say, That the drowsy are here awaked, to bethink them of their miseries: for howsoever they were but too forward in making their complaints, yet Satan benumbed their senses, lest the signs of Gods wrath should solicit them to repentance.
BY varietie of phrases he expresseth one and the same thing.1 For in regard many complaints would be heard to passe from this people, he would omit nothing that might serue to lay forth their wofull calamities. It may be he vtters these things as if he consented with them, that they were so indeed; as if he meant to say, Our matters are brought into wonderfull straits: but wee are aboue all things to consider the cause thereof, seeing wee haue deserued to be handled with much more seueritie. And yet the sense will not sute amisse if we say, That the drouzie are here awaked, to bethinke them of their miseries: for howsoeuer they were but too forward in making their complaints, yet Satan benummed their senses, lest the signes of Gods wrath should solicite them to repentance.