Lecture 12

^4:12^ Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should enter in by the gates of Jerusalem.

78. Here he shows that the event was astonishing because previously it would have been incredible; kings and inhabitants would not have believed, when powerful kings and ramparts with divine protection were in the city; the adversary, openly violent; and the enemy, deceitfully hidden. Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned? (Isa 23:8). The destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for (Isa 30:13).