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For thus sayth the Lord God, The citie which went out by thousand, shall leaue an hundreth: and that, which went out 〈◊〉〈◊〉 an hundreth, shall leaue ten to the house of Israel.
* 1.1THe figure occupatio, or an answering before hand of an obi••∣ction, wherein the punishment mentioned in the second ver••••
before going is more plainely declared, and shewed, how great & grieuous it shall be. And the end why it is made more plaine, is lest, as I sayd before, because that God in the former verse vsed the singular number, euery particular Israelite might be supposed that he should perish, hope of escaping being left vnto none. For God speaketh of the bodie it selfe of the people, and not of euery particu∣lar person of them. For there were some of them the which should be left aliue, albeit the number of them very small, and the same very fewe. And hereby is taught, * 1.2 how great the ruine and decaie of that people was like to be, to wit, euery tenth person of them shall be left in the house, or people of Israel, that is, of that king∣dome, the which was called the kingdome of Israel, and had fallen away from the kingdome of the twelue tribes, the which were once all ioyned together.
* 1.3Further, it is not here expressed, where those which shall bee left, should liue and dwell, whether in their owne countrey, and promised land, or elsewhere, as in Media, or Colchis, or Hircania, in∣to which countreyes they seeme to haue been caried by the Assy∣rians. Others thinke that this is to be vnderstoode of Media, or Hir∣cania: but I suppose it to be ment of their owne land and countrey, where also some of the Israelites were left. For it is sayd here, * 1.4 they shall goe out by hundreths and by tennes, to wit, (out of their Ci∣ties.) They shall then be in their cities.
Occupatio, which is a fi∣gure whereby we answer be∣fore hand an obiection that might bemade.
How great the ruine of the peo∣ple shall be.
Where it is likely that the Israelites which were left should liue and dwell.
The places here quoted 2. King. 22. & 2. Chro. 30. are misque∣ted, & contain no such thing. But I suppose that he taketh the name Isra∣el here for the Iewes, of the which some were left be∣hinde in the land. 2. King. 25. ver. 22. Ie∣rem. 40. v. 5, 9.