L. VIVES.
ESaias (a) is.] A noble man worthily eloquent, more like an Euangelist then a Prophet, he * 1.1 prophecied in Hierusalem and Iury. Hier. ad Eustoch. & Paulam. Manasses King of Iudah made him be sawen a two, with a wooden saw, of him is that ment in the Hebrewes. chp. 11. verse. 37. They were sawen asunder. The causes of his death Hierome relateth, comm•…•…n, in Esa. lib. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. (b) Some.] Hierome ad Paul & Eustoch. for he speaketh not in misticall manner of things as if they were to come, but most plainely, as if they were present, or past which is not ordinary in the other prophets. (c) Behold.] All this quotation out of the 52. 53. and 54. chapters of Isay, the Septuagints (whome Saint Augustine followeth) do some-times differ from the Hebrew truth: But the scope aymes all at one end, namely the passion of Christ: wee will not stand to decide perticulars, Augustine him-selfe saith all is playne inough, and omits to stand vpon them, to avoyd tediousnesse. (d) Deceipt found.] The seauenty, leaue out found (e) If you giue your soule.] The seauenty read it, if you giue (him) for sinne, your soule shall see your seede of long continuance. (f) The curtaines.] The vulgar, and the seauenty read, the skins.