John Trapp on Isaiah 14:23
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Isaiah14:23
Ver. 23. I will alſo make it a poſſeſſion for the Bittern] Which is a kind of water-fowl that maketh a hideous noiſe.
And I will ſweep it with the beſom of deſtruction] Scopa vaſtatrice verram cam, Scopis [illegible: 1 letter] en purgatoriis ſed perditoriis▪ R. David in Rad[illegible: 1 letter]c. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Mercer. in Pagnin Theſaur. Vatab. I will not bruſh them for Ornament, but ſweep them, or rather ſcrub them to their ruine by my Perſian Praedones whom I will ſet upon them. And here the Jewiſh Rabbins acknowledge that they came to underſtand this Text by hearing an Arabian woman mention a broom or a beſom in her Language, to her maid. Apollos a learned Teacher may yet learn of a Tent-maker.
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