1817 Nov. 30

Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus

§.3. Practice

Irr

Prophets

7. Seventhly and lastly comes /behold/ Zephaniah, Ch. ii. v. 8. 9.

‘I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified {themselves} against their border.

9. ‘Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts and God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, {even} the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation, the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.’

10. ‘This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified {themselves} against the people of the Lord of hosts.’

11. ‘The Lord {will be} terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and {men} shall worship him every one from his place, {even} all the isles of the heathen.’

12 ‘Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by the sword.’

13. ‘And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Ninevah a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.’—Thereupon follows the picture of the wilderness in detail.

In all the other /preceding/ passages the subject /object/ of the prophets’ vituperation is his own country: in this last the neighbouring countries come in for their /a/ share in it.