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John Trapp on Isaiah 11:15

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Isaiah11:15

Ver. 15. And the Lord ſhall utterly deſtroy the tongue of the Aegyptian ſea] that is, by drying up, or driving away the waters, He ſhall open a way through the red Sea, which repreſenteth the form and faſhion of a Tongue. He alludeth to Exod. 14. for Chriſt being our Conduct we do enter by Baptiſm (as by the red Sea) into the Church: and after this life preſent, into the Kingdom of Heaven.

He ſhall ſhake his hand over the River] The River Nilus. The ſenſe is, he ſhall remove all obſtacles and impediments. This was fulfilled, Acts 2.

With his mighty wind] The Chaldee paraphraſeth in eloquio prophetarum ſuorum, by the word of his Prophets: quod Apoſtolis non parum congruit, (ſaith Oecolampadius) which very well agreeth to the Apoſtles, converting the Elect, whom neither heighth, nor depth could keep from the love of God which is in Chriſt Jeſus our Lord, Rom. 8.39. The Jews expect (but in vain) that all theſe things ſhould be fulfilled unto them in the letter by their Meſſias, as once they were by Moſes at the red Sea.

And make men go over dry-ſhod] without boat, or boot.

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