CAP .18. ,/fg4.evelation of theApocalypse. 713 tranflates the word in Efay, Toikionas, as it were hairy Creatures. Anda place Wherinto keep every unclean Bird.It is not called thusas if it were like untoa cageor a coupe,whence theunclean birds could not flieout, but becaufe they fhould be teen to keep and to have their place of abode moil commonly and ufually in thefe ruinated places. Such are thofe fh-devouring, ravenous, and unlucky Birds , the Eagle, the Kite, the Hawke, the Vulture, the Crow, the nightwandringScritchowle,the howl, ts, &c. many of which kinde are reckoned up, Levit.ii. 13. &c. Which kin&of birds werecounted uncleane by the taw. This d iftinetion taketh no place now at this, and yet they are not amiff2 called uncleane 1tí11, be- caufe they do notably lay forth before our eyes , the natureof filthy and ravenous men , who.live by (leafing and extortion ; andknow no other way to fuflaine theri;fIves , but by violence and wrong doing to others. Por`t}1is cattle both this kinde of ravening birds is hated of all the refs of the Birds, even as they witncífe their hatred by gathering together by flockes, as often as they have gotten one of thefe harpies alone, and fo have occofion given them toop- preffe him,as allo the kinde ofravenous opprefllours, are hatefull and deteftable among all mortali men. Verle 3. For all nations have drunken of the wine. Here the Holy Ghoft cometh to the caufesof Babylons ruine, which are laid to be three , thatJhe Was the ringleader ofIdolatry to all men , that the en- ticed the Kings of the earth topertake in her wickednes, that enriched andadvanced ll her Citizens above meafure with herexceffive wan- tonnes andriotoufnes.Thefe fins of hers have beenofoldcennitted by her,& have been many ages before this oftentimes laid to her charge byother Angels. In that therefore fhe ïs accufedof the fame crimes ft ill, the wainefcote forehead of thiswhore is hereby laidopen, as who-cannot be brought by any admonitions, to lay afide her former wickednefl'e. As for thewords, the Wine of the wrath offornica- tion , is the whoredom wherewith God is provoked to anger, whichyet doth make wretchedmen fo drunke for a time with the del ght they take therein,that it taketh away all fenfe of' impiety , as it isChapter i 4,8.Mantanua turneth the orderof the wors, of the wrath of the wine. All Nations have drunke. Montanus readeth it tranfitively, floe loath madeall Nations io drinke,and fo the fin is more lively expref- fed,andmore fitting for her , that beareth a golden cup in her hand, to the end that fhe may provoke even thofe tLt thirst not to drinke; Ccccc 3 as.
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