OT-PROPHET-MINOR.filter - geneva worldly:

geneva@Nahum:1:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of Nineveh. The vision or revelation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Ninevites. The book of the vision of Nahum the That is, born in a poor village in the tribe of Simeon. Elkoshite. The Argument - As those of Nineveh showed themselves prompt and ready to receive the word of God at Jonah's preaching, and so turned to the Lord by repentance, so after a certain time they gave themselves to worldly means to increase their dominion, rather than seeking to continue in that fear of God, and path in which they had begun. They cast off the care of religion, and so returned to their vomit and provoked God's just judgment against them, in afflicting his people. Therefore their city Nineveh was destroyed, and Meroch-baladan, king of Babel (or as some think, Nebuchadnezzar) enjoyed the empire of the Assyrians. But because God has a continual care for his Church, he stirs up his Prophet to comfort the godly, showing that the destruction of their enemies would be for their consolation: and as it seems, he prophesies around the time of Hezekiah, and not in the time of Manasseh his son, as the Jews write.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:4 @ Behold, (note:)To trust in himself, or in any worldly thing, is never to be at peace: for the only rest is to trust in God by faith; (Rom_1:17; Gal_3:11; Heb_10:38).(:note) his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

geneva@Zechariah:2:4 @ And said to him, Run, speak to this (note:)Meaning himself, Zechariah.(:note) young man, saying, Signifying the spiritual Jerusalem and Church under Christ, which would be extended by the Gospel through all the world, and would need no material walls, nor trust in any worldly strength, but would be safely preserved and dwell in peace among all their enemies. Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it: