John Trapp on Isaiah 2:1

CHAP. II.

Ver. 1. THe word that Iſaiah the ſon of Amos ſaw] An auguſt Title or inſcription, ſuch as is not to be found in the whole book again, unleſs it be in the former Chapter. There alaſs he had laboured in vain, and ſpent his ſtrength for nought, and in vain, as chap. 49.4. Howbeit he will try again; as conſidering that he had loſt many a worſe labour: and although his Report were not believed, chap. 53.1. yet he would beſtow one more Sermon upon them, the ſhort Notes and general Heads whereof we have in this and the two following Chapters: I ſay, the general Heads. For Calvin in his Preface to this Book telleth us, that it was the manner of the holy Prophets to gather a compendious ſumm of what they had preached to the people, and the ſame to affix to the gates of the Temple, that the Propheſie might be the better viewed and learned of all, after which it was taken down by the Prieſt, and put into the Treaſury of the Temple, for the benefit of after-Ages.