`19'6 Qel,elationofthe Apocaiypre. CA.p.9. hayprerervlyd by God from the injuriesofthe Locufls. Befides theft Locufls, the whole E4 alfo was full ofMonks, but as Scorpions doe not hurt in fome places of the world, as in the Ifle Pharaos, the Alps of Noricum, and elfewhere, but in moft places they ftrike to deathwhich cannot be remedied; and as Locufis oftentimes doede- ftroy whole Countries through famine, which they procure, but fometimes they themCelves ferve inftead of food : fo the poyfon of the Monks was more deadly in the weft,and yet it did not paffe over into the Eaft, as we shall Phew in his proper place : nay, neither were they much noyfome in the weft, to the Graffe that was cut doWne. Men that had wifdome and courage, towhom the truthdid a little more clearly Thine out,did without fear defpife the Hypocrites, neither did they fufferthemfelves to bedevoured by them,as the refs of the filly people did, who were made a prey by a Chew ofpiety. Noy every green thing, nor every tree, but only men Who,&c. The meaning is,that fome good deale ofgreen things,andfome trees were to be exempted from this vexation by the Loeufis, all the reft being left to their cruelty to feaze upon, who hadnot the figne ofGod on their foreheads. In the former Chapter, the feventh verfe, the third part of the Trees Was burnt up, and all the green grate ; namely, of that thirdparr, becaufe all that graffe and thofe trees were of the flocke ordained to deftrut`tion.. But unleffe fome trees had been ac- counted to be in the number of theElea, the foure Angels above fhould not have been forbidden, and made to flay their fury, no, not for onemoment, Chap. 7. I. Here are a few therefore exempted, as thenative force of the words declareth fufficiently ; the words in- deed do bear that interpretation,which the molt learned Theod.Beza bringeth, neither any green thing, nor any tree, but only meas. For the univerfall figne All,isfometirnes'taken for any as Chap.7.i. 2Lither upon all trees, that is, any ; where the Complutenfe readeth, upon any tree: and Chap.2 t. 21. Every thingthat is uncleane,that is,any thing. The particles alto (fave onely) may be read by way of oppofition, but onely, as Chap. 21. 21. But onely thofe that Were Written. But here I do thinke, that we ought rather totranflate according to the proper fignification of the words by way ofexception, five the men only, Which hadnot, d-c. Thedifference is, that an exception is al- wayes of a thing that is of the fame kinde, the oppofition may be of any thing that is diverfe. So this place, every green thing, and every tree in the number of thofe who are fealed; That giveth this Pea- ling toforce certain trees, and tofamegreen thin only, countingte
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