Though, &c.] Or, If they would have been at peace, so should they have been many, and so should they have been shorn, and he should have passed away. Though they think themselves in most safety, and of greatest strength (by reason of the height which this Empire had attained unto) yet they shall be like to ripe corn or grasse of the field; which seemeth to call upon the sickle, and sythe to cut and mow it down. cut down] Heb. shorn. though I have afflicted thee] God turneth his speech to the Church.