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Art thou he? either by way of contempt from God, upon him and all his preparations, or by way of monition: All these enterprises I foresaw, have spoken of them, and I will as well defeat as I did foretell them.
Of whom I have spoken: it is not said it is written, though that be true also, but it was more spoken of.
In old time; in the days of those years past, or of their years, in the times when those prophets lived.
The prophets of Israel; not by prognostication or soothsayers, but by true prophets, my servants whom I sent, Da 11 Zec 14. Now, though they had not foretold this when Ezekiel did, yet when the question shall be asked by the church, it will be so many hundreds of years past, it may well refer to these two prophets; beside Isa_26:20,21, with Isa_27:1 Jer_30:23,24 Joe 3:1,15,16; and Mic_5:5,6, are prophets cited, as those who spake of this mighty enemy and his coming, and from which an understanding reader may soon collect that this foe was intended as well as others in those places.