John Trapp on Isaiah 27:4
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Isaiah27:4
Ver. 4. Fury is not in me] Whatever you may think of me, becauſe of my many dreadful menaces, and your heavy calamities; Non eſt in me ſed in vobis culpa iſtarum calami, atum: the fault is not in me but in your ſelves: do you but mend, and all ſhall be ſoon well betwixt us. It is but diſpleaſed love that maketh me chide or ſtrike my dear children; Lop my Vines, Ʋt bonus Vinitor Vites luxuriantes falce putat & purgat, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Job. 15.2. leaſes and luxuriances muſt be taken off, or it will be worſe. Better the Vine ſhould bleed, then die: better be preſerved in brine, then periſh in honey. But aſſure your ſelves I am not implacable: as your ſins have put thunder-bolts into my hands, ſo by ſound repentance you may ſoon diſarm me.
Who would ſet the briars and thorns] Gods Vineyard is not without briars and thorns, his Field without tares, his Church without Hypocrites, which prick God and his people, galling them to the heart. Theſe he will make an hand of, take an order with, by treading them down and burning them up; eſpecially if once they ſhall be ſo mad and mankind, as they ſay, as to bid him battle; See Job. 9.4. with the Note.
I would burn them together] Or, I will burn them out of it; See 2 Sam 23.7. with the Note.
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