Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 34:4

4. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved , and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll , and all their host shall fall down as the leaf that falleth off from the vine , and as a falling fig from the fig-tree.

The Sun, and Moon, and Stars, which frequently come under this name in Scripture, as Deut. 4. 19. and 17. 3. and elsewhere.

Shall seem to be dissolved. So great shall be the confusion and consternation of Man-kind, as if all the frame of the Creation were broken into pieces. Some understand this of the general Judgment; which some passages here following will not permit. But it is a very usual thing for Prophetical Writers, both in the Old and New-Testament, to represent great and general Calamities, in such words and phrases, as properly agree to the Day of Judgment; as on the contrary, The glorious Deliverances of God's People are set forth in such Expressions, as properly agree to the Resurrection from the Dead. See Ezek. 37. 7. Ioel. 2. 31. & 3. 15. Revel. 6. 12, 13.

Heb. as a book; for Books were then written in Scroles, which they usually rolled up together; and when they were so, no Man could [illegible: 1+ letters]ead any word in it; and no more shall any Man be able to see those goodly Lights of Heaven, for they shall all be obscured and confounded. This Phrase is used also, Isa. 8. 1. & Revel. 6. 14.

When it is withered.

Which falleth, either through great Maturity, or being thrust out by green Figs coming▪ forth, or by any other accident.

Marginal references: Rev. 6. 14.; Rev. 6. 13.