I, even I] An emphaticall doubling of the person importing both the proprietie of the Author and certaintie of the act, as Genesis 9:9. Exodus 14:17. Leviticus 26:28. Numbers 3:12. Ezekiel 5:8. & Chap. 6. 3. &c. 34. 11. & Hosea 5:14. in these places God useth the repetition of himselfe: the like is used sometimes by men, as by Eliah, 1 Kings 18:22. by Artaxerxes, Ezra 7:21. by Daniel, Daniel 8:15. doe bring] The commination of judgement to come is set down in the present tense, to expresse assurance of event; as being as sure to be done, as if it were now in doing: for the same end prophesies are many times set down in the preter tense, as if they were already come to passe, because they shall assuredly be fulfilled, Revelation 18:2. and many other places. every thing shall die.] Death is the reward of sinne, Genesis 2:17. Romans 6:23. and this a proportionable reward; for as sin was generall, ver. 12. so is death in this place; yet here the punishment goeth further then the guilt, for those must die that never sinned, because they that sinned deserved the curse not onely in their own persons, but their appurtenances, Genesis 3:19. And Genesis 6:7. & Genesis 8:21. Psalms 107:34. Micah 3:12.