Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

For if they had prefixed no prophecy touching §3this matter, things being thus suddenly confused, it might easily have troubled and appalled the hearts of the faithful. But when they knew long time before that this should come to pass, they had therein a mirror wherein to behold Gods providence touching the things that happened.

For if they had prefixed no prophecie touching §3this matter, things being thus suddenly confused, it might easilie haue troubled and appalled the hearts of the faithfull. But when they knew long time before that this should come to passe, they had therein a mirour wherein to behold Gods prouidence touching the things that happened.

After that Babylon was taken, use and experience §4taught them, that those things which they had learned in times part from the mouth of the Prophets, had not been foretold at random nor in vain. Notwithstanding, there was an other cause why the Lord commanded that the ruin of Babylon and other places with it was foretold: not that the Babylonians had any profit at all by these prophecies, neither yet the other Nations, as though these writings came to them.

After that Babylon was taken, vse and experience §4taught them, that those things which they had learned in times part from the mouth of the Prophets, had not been foretold at random nor in vaine. Notwithstanding, there was an other cause why the Lord commanded that the ruine of Babylon and other places with it was foretold: not that the Babylonians had any profit at all by these prophecies, neither yet the other Nations, as though these writings came to them.