John Trapp on Isaiah 34:1

CHAP. XXXIV.

Ver. 1. COme near ye Nations] In this Chapter and the next, the Prophet, for the terrour of the wicked, and comfort of the godly, ſummeth up what he had ſaid before concerning the deſtruction of the enemies, and the reſtauration of the Church.Lib. 11. de praep. Evang. Euſebius (with many other Ancients) will have this Chapter to be underſtood of the end of the world and the laſt judgement: and further ſaith that Plato hath taken this place of the Prophet Iſaiah into his writings, and made it his own, Litera vero hujus vaticinii de extremo judicio non loquitur: but this cannot be the literal ſenſe of the text, ſaith Scultetus. The Jew-Doctours will needs underſtand theſe two Chapters as a Prophecy of their return into the holy land, when once Idumea ſhall be deſtroyed: and for this they alledge, Lam. 4.22. which yet proveth it not.