I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people [there was] none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Ver. 3. I have trodden the winepress alone.] I, the sole and all-sufficient Saviour of my Church, have executed God's just vengeance upon all her enemies, spiritual and corporal; compare Lam 1:15 Revelation 14:19,20 ; Rev 19:15 and this with as much ease as men tread grapes in a winepress.
And of the people there was none with me.] Christ maketh use of men for the beating down of Satan's strongholds; but the power whereby it is done is from Christ alone. 2 Corinthians 10:4,5 ; 2Co 4:7 Papists, who will needs share with Christ and make him but a half Saviour, have no share in his salvation.
For I will tread them in mine anger.] I have already done it; and I will much more at that great "day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God." Rom 2:5 See Revelation 19:20,21 .
And their blood shall be sprinkled.] Or, Was sprinkled. Their blood; not his own. The Fathers, therefore, and others who interpret this text of Christ's passion, were mistaken. There is one among the rest who thus descants upon this verse, but not so well. The wild bull, saith he, of all things cannot abide any red colour. Therefore the hunter, for the time being standing before a tree, puts on a red garment; whom, when the bull seeth, he runs hard at him, as hard as he can drive. But the hunter slipping aside, the bull's horns stick fast in the tree; as when David slipped aside, Saul's spear stuck fast into the wall: such a hunter is Christ. Christ standing before the tree of his cross, putteth on a red garment dipped and dyed in his own blood, as one that cometh with red garments from Bozrah. Therefore the devil and his angels, like wild bulls of Bashan, run at him; but he, saving himself, their horns stick fast in the cross; as Abraham's ram, by his horns, stuck fast in the briers. Thus he.
Stain my raiment.] Heb., Pollute it; for other blood polluteth, Isa 59:3 Lam 4:14 but "the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin." 1Jn 1:7