John Trapp on Obadiah 1:2

Verſe 2. Behold, I have made thee ſmall among the heathen.] That is, vile, deſpicable, and abject, as Pſal. 119.141. I am ſmall and deſpiſed: nothing is more ordinary then to deſpiſe the day of ſmall things, Zech. 4.10.Auguſtin. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Heſiod. Godw. Catal. And whereas God is ſaid to be Magnus in magnis, nec parvus in minimis, hee had alwayes kept down theſe profane Edomites, ſhutting them up in mount Seir, a craggy barren countrey (not unlike Aſcre Heſiods countrey, or Landaffe in Wales, which is ſaid to be a place, neither pleaſant, fertile, nor ſafe) and not ſuffering them to attain to any fame, or almoſt name among other Nations. Were it not that they are mentioned in the Bible (and never there for any goodneſſe neither) it would hardly have been known that there ever had been ſuch a people. Wherefore then ſhould Edom be ſo intolerably inſolent, as verſe 3? ſwell to ſuch an height of pride, play ſuch bloody pran[illegible: 1 letter]s, as he is here accuſed of? eſpecially ſince God is taking a courſe to make him yet leſſer and lower then yet he is,Eſay 23.9. by thoſe armies of his that are comming upon him, to ſtain the pride of all his glory.