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. 10.

The field is wasted: the land mourneth: for the corne is de∣stroyed: the new wine is dried vp, and the oyle is decayed.

* 1.1THis is the rendring of a reason, and the same most plaine, of the former verse and sentence, to wit, why the meate offrings and drinke offrings shall cease to be made in the temple of God: name∣lie, because all those things shall faile, out of the which both those meate offrings, and also those drinke offrings were to be offered by the commandement of God. For the meate offrings were com∣manded to be made of sine meale, that is, of the most pure & cleane flowre of corne: and the drinke offrings of oyle and wine. But both all the corne was withered away (for the fieldes were spoyled both with ouer much wet, and also ouer much parching of the Sunne, and such other extraordinarie wayes) and also the wine & the oyle. In the which third,* 1.2 to wit, oyle, is the fourth kind of things contai∣ned, wherein euidently appeared the harme caused by these beasts called Insecta, to wit, Grashoppers, Locusts, Caterpillers, and the like. So then the Caterpillers, and those other sillie creatures had eaten vp the corne, or the fields: the wine, or the vines: the figges and the oliues. Whereupon is added to moue affection, and to stirre vp men be they neuer so dull and senseles, The land it selfe mour∣neth, that is, the soyle it selfe, and dead or senseles element of the earth, because of this so manifest anger and fearfull punishment of God. Wherefore much more ought men themselues, for whose sinnes these things come to passe, to mourne, to bee moued, and touched.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A reason of the former verse and sentence, why the meate offrings and drinke offrings should cease.
• * 1.2

  The fourth cō∣moditie, name∣ly oyle, hurt by the forenamed creatures.