John Trapp on Isaiah 19:11

Ver. 11. Surely the Princes of Zoan are fools] Otherwiſe they would never have ſo ill-adviſed their King, ſo to drain the River for his pleaſure, to the publick detriment. Zoan was an ancient City in Egypt, Numb. 13.22. The Septuagint and Vulgar verſions call it Tanis. Here it was that Moſes did all his Wonders, Pſalm, 78.12. Exod. 7.8, 9. Here Pharaohs Princes took counſel, but not of God, and covered with a covering, but not of his Spirit, that they might add ſin to ſin, Chap. 30.1.

The counſel of the wiſe Counſellours is become brutiſh] Such as was that of Machiavel the Florentine Secretary, De principe pag. 185. who propoſeth Ceſar Borgia (notwithſtanding all his villanies) as the only Example for a Prince to imitate.

How ſay ye unto Pharaoh?] How can ye for ſhame ſay ſo of your ſelves. Or quomodo dictatis Pharaoni? How can ye dictate or put ſuch words as theſe into your Kings mouth? What groſs flattery is this?

Herod. lib 2. [non-Latin text not transcribed] Luclan. Plato in Timaeo. I am the ſon of the wiſe] Or, a ſon of wiſe ones: as if Wiſdom were proper to you, and hereditary. The Egyptians cracked much of their wiſdom, yet more of their Antiquity, as if they were long before other people, yea before the Moon (as the Arcadians alſo boaſted) and that their Philoſophy was very ancient.