Deuteronomy 28:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Ver. 34. So that thou shalt be mad, &c.] As Bajazet was in his iron cage; as Pope Boniface VIII was the time when shut up in St. Angelo by Sara Columnus, his mortal enemy, renting himself with his teeth, and devouring his own fingers. a Philip, the Spanish king, is said to have borne patiently the defeat given to his invincible armada in the year 1588, but ten years after he died of a very loathsome and incurable disease, a sore botch that seized upon him from the sole of his foot unto the top of his head; as is to be seen set down by Carol. Scribanius, "Instit. Princip.," cap. 20. b

a Turk. Hist., 116.

b Camd., Elis.

Deuteronomy 28:34

34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.