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Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a bird: from the birth, and from the wombe, and from the conception.
* 1.1A Threatning of the iudgements of God, and the same most grie∣uous, because of their rebellion described before. And briefly here in this place is foretold the destruction or ouerthrow of the whole nation: and afterwards answere is made vnto diuers obie∣ctions, which were wont to bee brought by the Idolaters, or Israe∣lites.
The rooting out or destruction of the nation is contained in this verse,* 1.2 The glorie of Israel shall flee away, as birds are wont to flee away out of their cages. And this word (shall flee away) importeth thus much: shall vanish away, shall vtterly perish, shall be no more at all. So Dauid Psal. 90. ver. 9. speaketh of the swift vanishing away of the yeares of man: For all our dayes are past in thine anger: wee haue spent our yeares as a thought. Againe, Psal. 102. ver. 3.11. For my dayes are consumed like smoke, & my bones are burnt like an herth. My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse. In deede all the outward glorie and brauerie of man doth perish at the last, & whatsoeuer in the Scripture is called grasse, doth wither, as Peter speaketh Epist. 1 cap. 1. ver. 24. All flesh is grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away: but in this place there is a greater threatning de∣scribed. And this appeareth by these words following: euen from the birth, from the wombe, and from conception. For in these words is a going vp as it were by degrees, & also an amplification of this pu∣nishment & destruction. For it shall be with his beginning, middle, and end. It shall therefore be perfect, & not alone begun, or else in some one part of it onely. Further, by (glorie) I vnderstand in this place the sonnes or issue of the Israelites.* 1.3 For eu••••y sonne is called the glorie or honor of his father. And therefore Dauid Psal. 127. ver. 4.5. accounteth the store of them for a singular blessing, whereof a man ought to reioyce, & not to be ashamed, when he sayth: As are the arrowes in the hand of the strong man: so are the children of youth. Blessed is the man that hath his quiuerfull of them: for they shall not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gates. And Sa∣lomon Pro. 17. ver. 6. sayth: Childrens children are the crowne of the elders: and the glorie of the children are their fathers. And so is this word glorie here to be expoūded by the verse that followeth. There were no doubt many notable things in the Israelites, so farre foorth as they were the seed of Abrahā: but this same encreasing & main∣taining of the nation by the sonnes succeeding their fathers, was an especiall meanes of the preseruing of the couenant of God among them, nay in the world it self, the which questionles is to be accoū∣ted to haue been the singular glorie of this nation. For by this meanes our Lord Iesus Christ was borne of them.
A threatning of Gods iudge∣ment against their rebellion.
The rooting out of the na∣tion.
What is vn∣derstood by (glorie) in this place.