For in those days shall be affliction] Gr. For those days shall see affliction. This is a kinde of speech which the Hebrews use, and it hath a great force in it; for it gives to understand, that, in all that time, one misery shall so follow upon another, as if the time it self were very misery it self. So the prophet Am. 5. 23. saith, that the day of the Lord shall be darknesse. from the beginning of the creation] Of the world created, as chap. 10. 6.