Vers. 11. For with a stammering tongue, and with a strāge language shall he speake vnto this people.
WHereas some supply, that it is as if one spake, it is superfluous. I referre this to God then, who, as the Prophet saith, spake in a strange language to this barbarous people. This reprehension ought therefore to haue pierced them to the heart, in regard that by their owne default they made him to slut and stammer, who yet giues speech vnto all. He threatens them not, but rather accuseth them of blockishnes, in that they made the hea∣uenlie doctrine to become nothing else but a confused sound vnto them, so as they recei∣ued no benefit by it, because they wittinglie stopped their eares against it. The Prophet therefore compares their follie to a thing a∣gainst nature, in that they would not heare the voice of the Lord.