The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
Ver. 25. And terror within.] Warring times are terrible times. By the civil dissensions here in King John's time, all the kingdom became like a general shambles, or place of infernal terrors and tortures. War, saith one, is a misery which all words, how wide soever, want compass to express. It is, saith another, the slaughter house of mankind, and the hell of this present world. See Trapp on " Gen 14:2 "