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A37290 An exposition of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah by the endeavours of W. Day ... Day, William, ca. 1605-1684. 1654 (1654) Wing D472; ESTC R6604 788,151 544

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Ans In similitudes we must not be too curious to make part to answer part but it is enough that the whole answers the whole So the ruine and destruction of the Army answers to the shipwrack of a ship though the particular parts of the Army answer not to these particular tacklings and furniture of the ship and to the Mariners which are therein Then is the prey of a great spoyl divided q. d. Thou shalt be wrecked and then when thou art wreck'd that is when thine Army is destroyed shall the prey of a great spoyl be divided among the men of Jerusalem He puts here a Relative without an Antecedent and a present for a future tense And he either passeth from the Metaphor of a ship to the custom or manner of Wars where when the Enemy is vanquished or destroyed his spoyls are taken and divided Or else alludeth to the people which dwell on the Sea-coasts who hearing of the wreck of a ship come in abundance to carry away the goods thereof which are found on the shoar The lame take the prey i. e. They which are weak and impotent shall take the prey A present is put here for a future tense He puts the lame here for those which are weak and impotent and not able to make resistance by a Metaphor And such did the Assyrians esteem the Jews to be whom they besieged in Jerusalem 2 King 18.23 yet these lame men that is these which the Assyrians esteemed so weak and unable to resist them took the prey of their great spoyls Or when he saith the lame take the prey the Prophet may signifie that the spoyl of the Assyrians Camp should be so great as that they that were nimble and lusty should not be able to make away with it but they that were lame and went but softly should come time enough to have part of the prey 24. The Inhabitant i. e. The Inhabitants Supple of Jerusalem He puts a singular for a plural number The inhabitant shall not say I am sick In besieged Cities some grievous sickness or other and such as is contagious useth to assail the Inhabitants thereof by reason that they have not that liberty of ayr and wholesomness of diet and change of rayment and abundance of necessaries as they were wont to have at other times which sickness consumeth many and rageth even after the siege is broken up That therefore which the Prophet saith is this That notwithstanding that that the Inhabitants of Jerusalem should be besieged by Sennacheribs Army yet they should not be assailed by any sickness as they which are besieged are wont to be The people that dwell therein i. e. The people which dwell in Jerusalem The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity God is said in the Scripture-phrase to forgive iniquity when he pardons the punishment which he hath begun or hath threatned to inflict for those iniquities yea he is said to forgive them when he pardoneth those punishments though he doth inflict afterwards other punishments great and grievous So we read that the Lord forgave his people though he took vengeance of their inventions Psal 99.8 So Nathan said to David The Lord hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the Enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the childe that is born of thee shall surely dye 2 Sam. 12.13 14. Because therefore God delivered his people from the siege of the Assyrians and saved them from all those diseases which use to accompany close sieges he is said here to forgive them their iniquity ISAIAH CHAP. XXXIV COme neer ye Nations to hear The Prophet here calls to all the Nations in the World to attend to what the Lord will do upon the Assyrians and their assistants by which we may understand that when that came to pass which the Prophet doth here prophecy of it was so wonderful as that the report thereof filled the whole World See the like Cap. 33.15 And all that is therein i. e. And all the Inhabitants thereof All things that come forth of it All Individuals which have had their Being since the Creation may be said to come forth of the World because they are or have been produced by and out of some part of the World I except not man himself though his better part be created of God 2. For the indignation of the Lord c. This Particle For sheweth that there is something worth th●ir attention and points at it what it is It is the indignation of the Lord upon all Nations c. Vpon all Nations i. e. Upon all the men of all those Nations which were joyned with the Assyrians against Jerusalem for Sennacherib King of Assyria had men of divers Nations in his Army Vpon all their Armies Supple Which they muster and bring against Jerusalem There were many lesser Armies raised by several people which were under the Assyrians dominions which we may gather from cap. 10.8 36.9 of which Senacherib made one exceeding great Army He hath utterly destroyed them He will utterly destroy them A Preterperfect for a Future tense He hath delivered them to slaughter i. e. He will deliver them to slaughter to be slain thereby He speaks of slaughter as of a person by a Prosopopoeia and means that slaughter which was made by the Angel 2 Kings 19.35 3. Their slain also shall be cast out Supple Into the open air to be a prey for the beasts of the field and fowls of the air And their stink shall come out of their carcasses i. e. And their carcasses shall rot and stink as they lie It appears by this that it was a good while before they which were slain by the Angel were all buried And the mountains shall be melted with their blood i. e. And so much blood of theirs shall be shed upon the mountains about Jerusalem as that it shall dissolve the very mountains and make them run down like melted wax An Hyperbole 4. And all the Host of Heaven shall be dissolved i. e. And all the Host of Heaven shall be as if they were dissolved or melted and in melting drop down The note of similitude is here left to be understood By the Host of Heaven he meaneth the Sun and Moon and Stars which he calls an Host because they are many and orderly and as obedient to God as an Army is to its General And he speaks of the Host of Heaven as of wax or as if they were made of wax by a Metaphor so that if they did melt they must needs drop down Therefore he saith that the Host of Heaven shall be as if they were dissolved and dropt down because they shall not be seen but shall be to the eye as if they were not And therefore shall they not be seen and be to the eye as if they were not because the air shall be so thick as that it shall hinder the sight thereof