A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
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- Title
- A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C.
- Author
- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
- Publication
- At London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by William Cotton, dwelling in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the golden Lion,
- 1609.
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- Bible. -- O.T. -- Isaiah -- Commentaries.
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"A commentary vpon the prophecie of Isaiah. By Mr. Iohn Caluin. Whereunto are added foure tables ... Translated out of French into English: by C.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17640.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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Page 616
out, Who are these? Which maner of speech hath much more vehemencie in it, then if he had simply affirmed, that a great number did flee; yea, though he had vsed the same simili∣tudes. He meant then more fully to expresse how glorious this multiplying should be, see∣ing he could find no fit words to set forth the same withall.
Which flee as a cloud.] Some thinke that by this the Apostles are meant, who with an in∣credible swiftnesse, ranne to the vtmost parts of the world. I grant this exposition hath some colour: but the Prophet speakes of the assembling of the whole Church, namely, that the nations should runne vnto it from all parts, with great nimblenesse and ala∣critie.
The similitude of doues, which hee vseth, is very apt for this purpose. For when these birds be in the fields, they seeme to be of the number of other wild birds; yet they belong to an house, and haue their louers, vnto which they retire, and in which they make their nests. So in like manner, the faithfull begin to know their gathering together, be∣ing illuminated by faith; that so they may withdraw themselues out of that horrible scattering in which they are. Whosoeuer shall consider the miserable and wofull state of those times, shall easilie perceiue how neces∣sarie this aduertisement was. For if the Pro∣phets, who without ceasing, had so many yeeres instructed the Iewes, reaped little or no profit thereby; what was to bee expected from the Gentiles, who were wholly estran∣ged from God? Yet the Prophet hath not spoken excessiuely: but hee so admires the thing, that he also drawes vs therewithall into admiration with him.
Notes
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The Prophet amplifies this multi∣plication of the Church by an admi∣ration.
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Psa. 110.3.
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Simile.