John Trapp on Isaiah 26:20

Ver. 20. Come my people] Thus God lovingly beſpeaketh his, as leading them by the hand to an hiding place of his providing. So he ſhut up Noah in the Ark, ſecured Lot in Zoar, hid Jeremy and Baruch when ſought for to the ſlaughter: bade Daniel to go away and reſt before thoſe great troubles foretold, chap. 12.13. Auſtin and Paraeus died a little before Hippo and Heidelberg were taken. So did Luther before the bloody wars of Germany. For Mr. Brightman, a Purſuivant was ſent,Life of K. James by Wilſon. a day or two after he was buried. The burying place is not unfitly called [non-Latin text not transcribed], a reſting room to the Saints, the grave a bed, Iſa. 57.2. the bier that carrieth men to it, Matteh, i. e. a pallet, 2 Sam. 3.31. Lyra and others by Chambers here underſtand the graves, (Confer Rev. 6.11. Joh. 16.33.) thoſe chambers of reſt, and beds of down to the bodies of the Saints, until the laſt day. There are that by chambers, will have meant the cloſets of Gods Providence and Protection, ſuch as Pella was to the Primitive Chriſtians. Hitherto the Saints are exhorted to retire till the ſtorm be over, the enemy gone, the deſtroying Angel paſſed over, as Exod. 12.12. poſſeſſing their ſouls in patience.

As it were for a little moment] Heb. A little af a moment. Nubecula eſt, Sozom lib. 15. cap. 5. cito tranſibit, as Athanaſius ſaid when perſecuted by Julian, This ſtorm will ſoon blow over: this indignation doth not tranſire, but pertranſire, paſs, but paſs a pace.