John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:4 - 52:4

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:4 - 52:4


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Isa_52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Ver. 4. And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.] Nulla iniuria lacessitus. So did the primitive persecutors, the Christians of those times, though they were non aliunde noscibiles quam ex vitae integritate, saith Justin Martyr; eminent for their innocence, as Pliny also in his epistle to Trajan the emperor testifieth. What hurt had the Israelites ever done to malicious Moab that he was irked at them? {Num_22:3} or the Hebrews to the Assyrians, that they should oppress them?