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John Trapp on Isaiah 14:11

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Isaiah14:11

Ver. 11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave] Ipſaque juſta ſepulta jacent, Funeral rites (thoſe Dues of the Dead) are wanting to thee. This was fulfilled in Belſhazzar ſlain at his impious Feaſt,Theſe Feaſt-dayes were called [non-Latin text not transcribed] like the Roman Saturnalia. whileſt he profaned the veſſels of Gods houſe to quaff in, to the honour of Shac his drunken god, and had no doubt variety of Muſick. See Jer. 51.39, 41, 47. Dan. 5.1, 30.

The worm is ſpread under thee, and worms cover thee] Pro li[illegible: 1 letter]eamine tinea ſternitur: pro lodice vermes ſuperimponuntur: for ſheets thou haſt Maggots, and for a coverled, worms: and this the rather, becauſe whereas the Aſſyrian Kings, as Strabo teſtifieth, Lib. 16. Lib. 1. and the Babylonian Kings, as Herodotus, were wont to be Embalmed after their death, that they might keep ſweet, Belſhazzar was not ſo, ver. 19.20.

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