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Isaiah 14:1 a He sheweth why God will hast to destroy his enemies: to wit, because he wil deliure his Church.
Isaiah 14:1 b Meaning, that the Gentiles shalbe joyned with the Churche and worship God.
Isaiah 14:1 ! The returne of the people from captiuitie.
Isaiah 14:2 c Signifying that the Jewes shuld be superiours to the Gentiles, & that thei shulde be broght vnder the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles, whereby all are broght to the subjection of Chirst, {2 Co 10,5}.
Isaiah 14:4 ! The derision of the King of Babylon.
Isaiah 14:6 d That is, he suffred all violence and injuries to be done.
Isaiah 14:7 e Meaning, that when tyrants reigne, there can be no rest nor quietnes, and also how detestable a thing tyranie is, seing, the insensible creatures haue occasion to rejoyce at their destruction.
Isaiah 14:9 f As thogh thei feared lest thou shuldest trouble the dead, as you didest the lyuing: and here he derideth the proude tyrannie of the wicked, which knowe not that all creatures wish their destruction that they maie rejoyce.
Isaiah 14:11 g In stead of thy costly carpets and couerings.
Isaiah 14:11 ! The death of the King.
Isaiah 14:12 h Thou that thoghtest thy self most glorious, and as it were, placed in the heauen: for the morning starre, that goeth before the sunne, is called lucifer to whome Nebuchadnezzar is compared.
Isaiah 14:13 i Meaning Jerusalem, whereof the Temple was on the North side, as {Psal. 48, 2}, whereby he meaneth that tyrants fight against God when thei persecute his Church, and wolde set themsleues in his place.
Isaiah 14:16 k In marveling at thee.
Isaiah 14:17 l To set them at libertie: noting his cruelitie.
Isaiah 14:19 m Thou wast not buryed in the sepulchre of thy fathers thy tyrannie was so abhorred.
Isaiah 14:21 n He calleth to the Medes and Persians and all those that shulde execute Gods vengeance.
Isaiah 14:23 / Or, tortes.
Isaiah 14:25 o As I haue begone to destroy the Assyrians in Saneherib, so wil I countinue, & destroye them wholy. when I shal deliuer you from Babylon.
Isaiah 14:25 p From the Jewes.
Isaiah 14:28 q Read {Chap. 13,1}.
Isaiah 14:29 ! The destruction of the Philistines.
Isaiah 14:29 r He willeth the Philistims not to rejoyce because the Jewes are diminished in their power: for their strength shal be greater then euer is was.
Isaiah 14:30 s The Israelites, which were broght to moste extreme miserie.
Isaiah 14:30 t To wit, my people.
Isaiah 14:31 u That is, from the Jewes, or Assyrians: for they were bothe North from Palestina.
Isaiah 14:31 x But they shalbe all ready, and joine together.
Isaiah 14:32 y Which shal come to enquire of the state of the Church.
Isaiah 14:32 z Thei shal answer, that the Lord doeth defend his Church, & them that joyne them selves thereunto.
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