A17640:738
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. 17. Therefore shall the Lord have no pleasure in their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless, and of their widows; for every one is an hypocrite, and wicked, and every mouth speaketh folly: yet for all this his wrath* is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out.
Vers. 17. Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their young men, neither will hee haue compassion on their fatherlesse, and of their widowes; for euery one is an hypocrit, and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh folly: yet for all this his wrath* is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out.
- *Or, shall not be, &c.
Here Isaiah shows more plainly how horrible this vengeance of God shall be against all estates. So far off is it that the guilty should save themselves, that even children, young men and widows, shall not escape; although they have been wont to spare such, and that in the cruellest wars. Which mercy, histories do show hath been practised even by the very heathen at the sacking of Cities. But the Lord shows here, that he will have neither respect to age nor sex. Although yet another sense will not be amiss; to wit, that though the battles deprive many women of their husbands, and children of their fathers; yet that God will not cease for all that to chastise both widows, children, and fatherless. But because this sense concerns the principal point very little, I therefore stay not my self in it. Now to the end they should not accuse God of cruelty, he therewithal shows good cause why he ought to be thus severe towards them; because they shall be found wicked; and therefore worthy to be equally cast headlong into destruction, and that by a most just sentence.