A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.

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Title: A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.
Author: Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?
Publication: [Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legate, printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge [and at London, by J. Orwin] 1594. And are to be sold [by R. Bankworth] at the signe of the Sunne in Paules Church-yard in London,; [1594]
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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Vers. 17.

O idoll shepheard that leaueth the flocke: the sword shall be vpon his arme, and vpon his right eye. His arme shall be cleane dried vp, and his right eye shall be vtterly darkened.

* 1.1A Threatning of God against the Shepheards themselues with most grieuous indignation, or reprouing of them. God there∣fore threatneth also these foolish and bad Shepheards, that they likewise shall in the end be destroyed, and vtterly rased out by him. And this punishment by the figure Synecdoche,* 1.2 is described or set forth by making mention of two of the chiefe and principall mem∣bers of the bodie, to wit, the Arme, and the Eye. These two mem∣bers in a Shepheard ought especially to bee whole, sound, and liue∣ly. The Eyes, that the Shepheards may see & perceiue those things which are profitable for their flocke, or hurtfull. The Arme, that they may defend and keepe their flocke. For these two members being taken away, men are vtterly vnprofitable and vnfit especial∣lie for the charge of defending, gouerning, and feeding others. But in these words and members there is a Metaphor.* 1.3 For by the word (Eye) he signifieth wisedome, and by the word (Arme) might, po∣wer, and strength, both which the Lord threatneth shall bee wan∣ting, and that he will take them away from these couetous, & cruel, and negligent, that is, bad shepheards of his people, Isai. 3. ver. 1.2.3 in these words: For loe, the Lord God of hostes will take away from Ie∣rusalem, and from Iudah the stay, and the strength: euen all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water, the strong man, and the man of warre, the Iudge and the Prophet, the prudent, and the aged, the captaine of fiftie, and the honorable, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man. This is now especially fulfilled among the Iewes, and hath been fulfilled, both before the times of the Macha∣bees, and afterward all those fortie yeares from the death of Christ vnto the destruction of Ierusalem, and now also. But there is a most hard and sharpe reproofe contained in these words (O vnprofitable, or idoll shepheard, &c.) added for this cause, that they being so often admonished by God, may be made vnexcuseable, and bee shewed altogether contemners or despisers of their charge and dutie.

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* 1.1

A threatning against the bad shepheards

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* 1.2

What the fi∣gure Synecdo∣che is, see Amos cap. 5. ver. 21.

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* 1.3

What a Meta∣phor is, see A∣mos cap. 4. ver. 12.

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