John Trapp on Zephaniah 2:12

Verſe 12. Ye Ethiopians alſo, ye ſhall be ſlaine by my ſword] which is long enough to reach you, though far remote. The Poets faine that Jupiter was wont to be feaſted by the Ethiopians: but that ſhall not ſave them from Gods ſore and great ſtrong ſword. Nebuchadnezzar, to whom God had given Ethiopia, and Egypt and Saba as a ranſome for his people Eſa. 43.3. See Prov. 11.8. with the Note. The Ethiopians and Egyptians were ſubdues together Ier. 46.2. Eſay 18.1, 2. It is now inhabited by the Abyſſines (a kind of mongrell-chriſtians) and called Preſter-lohns countrey; where they ſay they have this cuſtome amongſt others: In their great ſolemnities they have a cup of gold born before them, filled within, and beſmeared without with dirt, yet ſo as the gold appeareth: and next to this cup is carried a crucifix. Hereby they would ſhew that man ſhould be pure as gold: but being within and without defiled by ſin, he is reſtored by Chriſt crucified, ſo as that the gold of Gods graces appeareth in him here in part, and ſhall do hereafter in all perfection.