John Trapp on Micah 4:6
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Micah4:6
Verſe 6. In that day] ſc. of grace and of the Goſpel: It is called a day and that day, by an excellency in regard of Revelation, Adornation, Conſolation, Diſtinction, ſpeedy Preterition.
ſaith the Lord] Whoſe word cannot be broken Ioh. 10.35. and is therefore the beſt ſecurity 2 Cor. 1.20.
will I aſſemble her that halteth] Heb. that goeth ſideling, that is maimed, diſioynted, lamed, Eſa. 35.3. torn Pſal. 35.15. and tired out with long journeys into captivity, as the Jewes were by the Babylonians, Greeks and Romanes before Chriſts comming: that they might breath after thoſe dayes of refreſhing from the preſence of the Lord Mal. 3.1.
and I will gather her that is driven out] Or, rejected, thruſt away with a force, that is, the Gentles, ſuffered to walk in their own wayes Act. 14.16. and carried away unto dumb idols, even as they were led 1 Cor. 12.2.
and her that I have afflicted] Both Jewes and Gentiles, the whole community of people: for God ſhooke all nations then, when the deſire of all nations (Chriſt Heb. 12.25.) was to come Hag. 2.7. See verſes 22, 23. Junius, after the Septuagint, rendr[illegible: 1 letter]th it ut veniant deſiderati omnium gentium, that the Saints, thoſe deſirable ones, out of all nations may come: for unto Shiloh in a moſt afflicted time (when the ſcepter was departed from Judah &c.) was the gathering of all people to be Gen. 49.10. Eſa. 26.8, 9. See Eſay. 66.20. rather in litters as lame people are carried) ſhould they come, then not at all: rather on one leg with Jacob, ſhould they wreſtle, then not prevaile.
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