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.

The horseman lifteth vp both the bright sword, and the glit∣tering speare, and a multitude is slaine, and the dead bodies are many: there is none end of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses.

* 1.1AN amplification of the sayd maner of their punishment, and a more plaine declaration of the same. For he spake before of their chariots of warre, & of their horses: now he intreateth of their

horsemen, and of their furniture, the which also he will paint out before their eyes fearefull, and such as the Assyrians and Niniuites shall not be able to abide. All which things make, and are spoken for the confirmation of this punishment. The horseman, namely, not he which fighteth out of the chariot, but from his horse,* 1.2 shall bring forth, or shall cause his horse to goe vp into euery place, neuer so high and rough: he shall so skilfully turne him: and shall driue him being taught and made vnto all poynts of warre with horse, & vnto the fight: as of good Riders their horses are wont to be taught and made before hand vnto all turnings and feares. That which Homer teacheth also in his Iliad. lib. 7. And such shall the horsemen, that is, the souldiers that fight on horsebacke be.

* 1.3Their furniture also shall be terrible or fearfull. For their swords shall shine like fire, they shall be so bright, and readie vnto slaugh∣ter: their speares with their yron poynts shall glister like the light∣ning in the ayre. Last of al, the multitude of the slaine Niniuites shal be so great, that there shall be no number of them: and those which shall goe in the streetes, shall euery where stumble vpon them. The which are the signes and tokens of an exceeding great slaughter, and receiued ouerthrow, such namely as shall fall out vnto the Ni∣niuites. Therefore they shall not abide their enemies: but the As∣syrians shalbe ouercome, how vnuanquishable soeuer they be now thought for to be.

Notes

• * 1.1

  An amplifica∣tion of the ma∣ner of their pu∣nishment.
• * 1.2

  The horsemen.
• * 1.3

  Their furni∣ture.