It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Ver. 15. It shall be the basest of the kingdoms.] And worthily, for their worshipping the basest creatures, see Rom 1:23-24 but especiailly for their faithlessness to God's Israel.
For I will diminish them.] As God hath likewise done the Persians at this day - who have undone their confederates, the Egyptians and Georgians a - and the Grecians no less, who have now lost their liberty, and are so degenerate, by means of the Turkish oppression, that in all Graecia is hardly to be found any small remembrance of the glory thereof. b
a Turkish History.
b Ibid., 260.