John Trapp on Isaiah 56:10

Ver. 10. His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant] Invehit in Pſeudepiſcopos, ſuch as were (and are ſtill in part) the Popiſh Clergy, thoſe of the ninth age eſpecially, and not much better a little before Luther ſtickled: blind leaders of the blind, lamentably ignorant, as the Biſhop of Dunkelden in Scotland for inſtance;Act. & Mon. Luther. who profeſſed that he knew neither the New Teſtament nor the Old: ſo Biſhop Albert reading the Bible, and being asked by a Noble-man What book it was he read? I know not, ſaid he, what book it is; but all that I read in it, is contrary to our Religion. As for the other ill qualities of the watchmen here enveighed againſt, Hugo the Cardinal ſaid, that the Devil had two daughters, Covetouſneſs and Luxury: the former he had heretofore married out to the Jews, the latter to the Gentiles: but now the Monkes and Prieſts had gotten them both from their old husbands, and taken them for their own uſe. The Hebrew Criticks have obſerved, that the word here rendred watchmen, hath a Tſade bigger than ordinary; to ſhew what odious creatures ſuch are as are here deſcribed.

They are all dumb dogs that cannot bark] i. e. Will not deal plainly and faithfully with mens ſouls: but either preach not at all, or placentia only, toothleſſe truthes. Lib. 29. chap. 4. Pliny tells of the dogs in Rome that were ſet to keep the Capitol; becauſe, when the Gaules ſcaled it, the dogs being fed too full, lay ſleeping and did not give warning, they not only hanged them up, but every year on that day of the year, hanged up certain dogs in the City for exemplary juſtice; yea crucified them alive upon an Elder-tree. Let dumb dogs and paraſitical Preachers (treacherous to mens ſouls) take heed they be not one day hanged in hell.

Sleeping, lying down, loving to ſlumber] Non dormiunt ſolum, ſed dedita opera dormiunt; Somno[illegible: 1 letter]entia paſtorum luporum eſt gaudium. ſo full they have farced themſelves, and ſo deeply drunk they are, that they ſleep ſoundly (though Lyons roare, and wolves worry the poor flock) and that many times far enough from the fold; wherein they ſhew themſelves to be worſe then Ʋlyſſes his ſwineherd, of whom Homer ſaith, — [non-Latin text not transcribed] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. that he would not be drawn to ſleep from his ſwineſty.