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.

Vers. 3.

They will not dwell in the Lordes land, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane thinges in Asshur.

* 1.1AN amplification of the punishment to ensue vpon these idola∣tors, and the same taken from three places. First, from their ba∣nishment or captiuity, and the same most lamentable. For the Israelites shaldwel no longer in that land wherin then they were,* 1.2 to wit, the land of God, and the blessed land: a land giuen them by God for a signe of their adoption, and his peculiar couenant with them, but shal be cast forth, and led away into captiuity. The secōd place of this amplification is frō the place & people among whom the Israelites shall be in banishment and captiuitie,* 1.3 that is to say, a∣mong the Egyptians & Assyrians, their most mortall and deadly e∣nemies: yea and moreouer they shall voluntarily and of their owne accord, goe into captiuitie and banishment vnto those their ene∣mies the Egyptians in especiall, by reason of the intollerable mi∣series the which they shall feele in their natiue soyle and countrey, and in that land the which sometimes was most blessed and hap∣pie. The third place is from the great want of all things, or hun∣ger, the which shal then sal out vnto them, and from their vngodli∣nes.* 1.4 For there they shall eate meates polluted or vncleane, and such as were of old forbibden them, being both driuen therunto by necessitie: and also of contempt or despising of God. Whereof the godly Iewes indeede, had alwaies an especiall regarde, so that they would not suffer themselues by any meanes to bee drawen to the

eating of such things as by the law of God were vnlawfull, as may appeare by the example of Peter Act. 10.14. who being an hungry and falling into a trance, whiles they made ready for him, and ha∣uing all maner of meates offered vnto his viewe, and being by a voyce from heauen willed to kill and eate, maketh answere, Not so, Lord: for I haue neuer eaten any thing that is polluted or vncleane.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The punishmēt amplified from three places.
• * 1.2

  1. From their cap¦tiuitie.
• * 1.3

  2. From the place of their capti∣uitie.
• * 1.4

  3. From their vn∣godlines, and want of all things.