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Isa_31:2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
Ver. 2. Yet he also is wise.] Yea, he is "the only wise God," whatever the world’s wizards think of him or of themselves. They counted the voyage down to Egypt the wisest way; {a} and to rest altogether upon God, to be altogether impolitic as the case now stood. Egypt also, they knew, was famous for wisdom, {Isa_19:11-12} but considered not how God had fooled them, {Exo_1:10; Exo_1:12} and taken those foxes in their own craft. {1Co_3:19}
And will bring evil.] To those evil counsellors especially,
“ Häå êáêç âïõëç ôù âïõëåõóáíôé êáêéóôç ”
{a} Tacita antithesis in qua latet Antanaclasis.