An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

That all the care of worldly men, all the thorn-hedges they make about their estates, shall never secure them from spoil and ruin. The hungry will press and venture through the thorns to take them.

That all the care of worldly men, all the thorne-hedges they make about their estates, shall never secure them from spoyle and ruine. The hungry will presse and venture through the thorns to take them.

Further, As the word signifies a Buckler (or any kind of arms, whether offensive or defensive) as the text is by some translated, He shall fetch it out of their Arms, or from among their weapons. ¹And then, the sense may be thus conceived (which agrees fully with the former Observation)

Further, As the word signifies a Buckler (or any kind of arms, whether offensive or defensive) as the text is by some translated, He shall fetch it out of their Armes, or from among their weapons. ¹And then, the sence may be thus conceived (which agrees fully with the former Observation)

1. 1De Armis •ollet eam, sc. messem. Et ipsum rapiet armatus. Vulg.

Though, this wicked man in his high estate, should get many armed men together to defend it, yea though he should get an Army of men, with sword and buckler, with pike and shot to defend it, yet none of them shall be able. The wrath of God, by the man out of the thorns, the meanest instrument of his wrath, shall break through all And in allusion to this, the vulgar (more truly then as a translation) reads it,