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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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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Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?
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[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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Bible. -- O.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19799.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Vers. 6.
Therefore night shall be vnto you for a vision, and darknes shall be vnto you for a diuination, and the sunne shall goe downe o∣uer the Prophets, and the day shall be darke ouer them.

* 1.1A Threatning of punishment, the which altogether agreeth with the wickednes described before, that is to say, the abuse of the office of a Prophet. And this is, that it shall doubtles come to passe, that they shall manifestly be found to be voyd and without the gift of prophesie, and trifelers, and lying mates, who haue seene and heard nothing from God, and therefore neither can, nor could pro∣phesie. Further, this punishment is described with many Meta∣phors, and similitudes of things the which are taken from things bodily,* 1.2 and which may be seene vnto things without bodie, and in∣uisible, or which cannot be seene, because that prophesie is euery where in the holie Scripture called a vision. So then this darknes, dimnes, night, the which shall come vpon these Prophets, doe sig∣nifie and betoken both a wanting of God his inspiration, and also the passing ignorāce of these men, which call themselues Prophets, in matters appertaining vnto God, the which ignorance is called both night, and also thicke darknes. For God did not furnish them with his Spirit, nor will furnish them to prophesie, and this shall all men indifferently know. Wherefore they shall detest and abhorre them as lyars and deceiuers, and finde them to be most ignorant.

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