John Trapp on Obadiah 1:15

Verſe 15. For the day of the Lord is near &c.] The wicked plotteth againſt the juſt, and gnaſheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord ſhal laugh at him: for he ſeeth that his day is coming Pſa. 37.12, 13. the particular day of his ſore puniſhment, a type and pledge of the generall judgement, that great day of the Lord, as it is called Rev. 6.17. and 16.14. becauſe the great God will on that day do great workes, and determine great matters, Jud. 19. But as ſome mens ſins go before to judgement, (as it were, by a ſpeciall ſeſſions preceding and anteverting the great Aſſiſes) ſo ſhould Edom, and his neighbour Nations taſt all of Nebuchadnezzars cup and whip Jer. 25. and this day is ſaid to be neere upon them, though it came not of above an hundred yeares after: ſo is the comming of Chriſt to judgement neere, though we preſume not to ſet the time as ſome have done, deceiving and being deceived.

as thou haſt done, it ſhall be done to thee] God loves to retaliate, and to oppoſe frowardneſſe to frowardneſſe Pſal. 18.26. contrariety to contrariety Levit. 26.18.21. ſeverity to cruelty, as he did to Adonibezek, Agag, Zeba and Zalmunna Jud. 8.19. and Edom here, and Ezech. 35. And the heathens held this but meet, as appeareth by their fables and ſtories of Phineus Quid fodis immeritis natis ſua lumina, Phineu? Poena reverſura eſt in caput ipſa tuum.Ovid. So of Diomedes king of Thrace, Juſtum eſt ai[illegible: 1 letter] Rhadamanthus quod quis injuſtè alj[illegible: 1 letter]s intulit idem ſubeat & patiatur. Ariſt. Ethic. caſt by Hercules to be devoured by his own dogs which he had ſo oft fed with mans fleſh. The like might be ſaid of Perillus and his brazen bull, whereof himſelf had the handſell. Herein they ſaid no other thing, then what God had in the old law decreed Levit. 24.19. and Chriſt in the New hath confirmed Mat. 7.2. for a terrour to evill-doers, who ſhall have like for like returned unto them, and be filled with their own wayes Prov. 14.14. See Lam. 4.21. The Rabbbines conceive all this to be ſpoken of the Romanes (whom they call Edomites) Sure we are God will be even with that Romiſh Antichriſt, and render him his own in kind, when he once takes him in hand, as Rev. 18.6. &c. Rev. 13: 10.