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John Trapp on Isaiah 45:3

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Isaiah45:3

Ver. 3. And I will give thee the treaſures of darkneſſe] All that Craeſus (that rich King) had amaſſed, and other Princes, but eſpecially Babylon, Jer. 50.37. and 51.1[illegible: 1 letter]. See Strabo lib. 15. Plin. 33. c. 3. Dan 5.3. Pliny ſaith that Cyrus brought out of Aſi[illegible: 1 letter], Juſtin. lib. 1. which he had ſubdued, as much treaſure as amounteth in our money to three hundred millions. And yet this ſame Cyrus was within few years after, made as poor as Irus: for being in Scythia, and there making ſhew of his great riches at a feaſt, he was on the ſudden ſlain and ſpoiled of all by Tomyris Queen of that Coun[illegible: 1 letter]rey.

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