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John Trapp on Isaiah 21:9

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Isaiah21:9

Ver. 9. And behold here cometh a Chariot of men] Or, behold even now are gone in, that is, Cyrus and Darius (as ver. 7.) have broken into the Town, and ſurprized it.

And he anſwered and ſaid,] He, that is, the Watchman, numinis quodam afflatu commotus, by a divine inſtinct; or rather God himſelf.

Babylon is fallen, is fallen] That is, ſhall fall, certo, cito, penitus, certainly, ſpeedily, utterly,—ruit alto à culmine Troja: ſo ſhall ſhortly myſtical Babylon, Rev. 18. as the Jeſuites themſelves Ribera & a Lapide confeſs; only they ſay This ſhall be toward the end of the world, when Rome ſhall become Idolatrous; as though it were not ſo now. But what ſaid Petrarch long ſince? There yet ſtandeth near at hand a ſecond Babylon, cito itidem caſura, ſi vos eſſetis viri, which would ſoon be down, would you but ſtand up as men.

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