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Excerpt from Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Vol. 3
Let us cheer our hearts with this consolation, when we see tyrants insolently and fiercely attack the Church of God for the Lord will at length compel them to stop, and the more cruel they have been, the more severely will they be punished. The Lord will destroy them in a moment; for he will raise up against them enemies who will instantly ruin and punish them for their iniquities.
Here we ought also to acknowledge the providence of God in the overthrow of kingdoms; for wicked men imagine that everything moves at random and by the blind violence of fortune; but we ought to take quite another View, for the Lord will repay their deserts, so that they shall be made to know that the cruelty which they exercised against inofi'en sive persons does not remain unrevenged. And the event shewed the truth of this prediction for not long afterwards Nineveh was conquered by the Babylonians, and lost the monarchy, and was even so completely destroyed that it lost its name. But as Babylon, who succeeded in her room, was not less a spoiler, the Prophet justly foretells that there will be other robbers to rob her, and that the Babylonians, when their monarchy shall be overthrown, will themselves be plundered of those things which they seized and pillaged from others.
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