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.

Ver. 8.

And I will sell your sonnes and your daughters into the hand of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them vnto the Sabians, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

* 1.1THe ouerthrow of the enemies of the church, and the same most lamentable. For they in the iust iudgement of God shall fall into the selfe same miseries, the which they haue deuised and pro∣cured for the church. So then God requiteth vnto his enemies the selfe same mischeefe the which they haue cruelly inuented against the church: and rendreth vnto them like for like, as he smote the Philistines in the hinder partes, and put them vnto a perpetuall shame, Psal. 78. ver. 66. who had shamefully vsed God his people, and sinned fouly against him in beastly idolatry. For the same in the end reboundeth vpon their owne partes, the which they had framed against the godly, and men fearing the Lord. So Dauid speaketh of the vngodly, Psal. 7. ver. 15.16. He hath made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the pit that he made. His mischeefe shall returne vpon his owne head, & his cruelty shall fall vpon his owne pate. And this is a most iust punishment of these wicked men, & enemies of God, that they themselues feele and suffer the harme & misery the which they do forge and goe about for others. The which in this place God threatneth, shall fall out vnto the enemies of his church.* 1.2 Therefore this punishment threatned by God con∣taineth three things. First, that it shall come to passe that their sonnes and daughters also shall be sold for captiues into bondage, as they namely solde the sonnes and daughters of Iudah. The se∣cond,* 1.3 that they shall be solde, and caried away into captiuity by the Iewes themselues, as they sold them, and held and kept them captiues. The third,* 1.4 that they also themselues shall be sold by the same Iewes vnto the Sabeans, and people far off, that they may serue a perpetuall and most miserable bondage beyond all hope of be∣ing redeemed & ransomed afterwardes,* 1.5 like as they sold the Iewes vnto the Grecians and nations far off into perpetual and miserable bondage. And this is a iust requitance of punishment.

Notes

• * 1.1

  2 From the mise∣rable ouer∣throw of their enemies.
• * 1.2

  The punishmēt here threatned containeth three things.
• * 1.3

  1. Their sonnes and daughters shall be sold.
• * 1.4

  2. They shall be sold by the Iewes.
• * 1.5

  3 They shall be sold vnto nati∣ons far off.