The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Ver. 14. The sons also of them that afflicted thee.] When once they shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, as Mal 3:18 there shall be a strange alteration wrought in them, as was in Paul, Cyprian, Vergerius, Latimer, and others.
Shall bow themselves at the soles of thy feet.] Such was the custom of the Easterlings; and this, the Popish writers say, is fulfilled in their vicegod, as we may, in the worst sense, best call him. The first that held forth his feet to be kissed was Dioclesian the Tyrant. a
a Eutrop.