John Trapp on Jeremiah 8:3

Ver. 3. And death ſhall be choſen rather then life] They being captives and ſorely oppreſſed, ſhall ſing that doleful ditty, — O terque quaterque b[illegible: 1 letter]ati, Queis ante ora patrum Solymae ſub moenibus altis Contigit oppetere.— Oh how happy were they that periſhed,Vae victis. during the ſiege, or in the ſurpriſal of the City! Life indeed is ſweet, as we ſay: and man is a life-loving creature, ſaid that heathen: but it may fall out that life ſhall be a burden, and a bitterneſſe: how oft doth Job unwiſh it? and how fain would Eliah have been rid of it? ſo little cauſe is there that any good man ſhould be either fond of life, or afraid of death.