John Trapp on Isaiah 9:21

Ver. 21. Manaſſeh Ephraim, and Ephraim Manaſſeh] Snarling at and intertearing one another as dogs, about the kingly dignity, or ſome other reaſonleſs reaſon. Thus the Prophet exemplifieth what he had ſpoken.

And they together ſhall be againſt Judah] So Herod and Pilate could unite againſt Chriſt, Luk. 23.7, 8, 9 and thoſe that were at greateſt enmity amongſt themſelves, againſt the Church, Pſal. 83.5, 8. So in Julian the Apoſtates time, Jews and Gentiles combined againſt Chriſtians: and in our dayes Papiſts and Lutherans againſt Calviniſts.In Syngram. How unworthily and impotently do the Lutherans of Suevia rail upon that holy man Oecolampadius, whoſe note it is upon this text, that theſe laſt dangerous times were foretold by St. Paul, 2 Tim. 3.1, 2. Annon eoſdem deſcribunt Paulus & Jeſaias? ſaith He; Do not Paul and Iſaiah deſcribe the ſame men? Bullinger obſerveth concerning the Anabaptiſts of Germany, that as they are at great odds among themſelves, ſo they all agree againſt godly Miniſters of the truth, to deſpiſe and diſparage them to the utmoſt.