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John Trapp on Zechariah 9:4

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Zechariah9:4

Verſ. 4. Behold the Lord will caſt her out] Or, impoveriſh her, as ſome render it: that's for her money. God can ſoon let her blood in the vena cava, called Marſupium: and make her nudam tanquam ex mari. And then for her munitions:

He will ſmite her power in the ſea] She was ſeated in a Iſland, upon munitions of rocks: the ſea was to her inſtead of a three-fold wall and ditch. She was better fortified then Venice is; which yet hath flouriſhed above nine hundred years, and was never in the enemies hands: whence ſhe hath for her Motto, Intacta manet. But Tyrus was taken Nebuchadnezzar, as his wages; and afterwards by Alexander, who never held any thing impoſſible that he undertook, how unlikely ſoever it were to be effected. He found means to fill up the ſea with ſtones, trees, and rubbiſh, where it divided Tyrus from the Continent: and made himſelf maſter of it.

and ſhe ſhall be devoured with fire] though ſeated in the heart of the ſea, Ezek. 28.2.Curt. lib. 4. Plin. lib. 5. c. 19 and had motted up her ſelf againſt Gods fire. Nothing ſhall quench the fire that he kindleth.

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