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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. 14. But they shall flee upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west: they shall spoil them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience.
Vers. 14. But they shall flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistims toward the west: they shall spoile them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience.
His meaning is, that the Lord will also assist his people by another means; to wit, that he will triumph over his enemies, & subdue them under his power. For as he hath hitherto spoken of the safety of the Church; so now also he declares, that she shall obtain victory over her enemies. Now he makes mention of the nations against whom the Jews had continual wars: the Philistines §1assailed and molested them on the one side, on the other side they had the Ammonites and §2Moabites, by whom they were conjoined both by consanguinity and neighbourhood. And §3on the other side were the Idumeans, who were not withheld by any nearness of kindred whatsoever,1 from being the sworn enemies of the Jews; they came of Esau the brother of Jacob, the remembrance whereof ought to have turned them from all hatred and rancour.2 And therefore the Lord promiseth to his Church, that although she should have enemies, that yet notwithstanding by suffering under them, she shall conquer and bring them under in the end.