For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be with burning [and] fuel of fire.
Ver. 5. For every battle of the warrior, &c.] Great is the woe of war; when death hews its way through a wood of men, in a minute of time, from the mouth of a murdering piece, when fire and sword waste at pleasure. The birth of Christ comforteth against all the miseries of war; whereunto therefore it is opposed both here, and Micah 5:1,2; See Trapp on " Mic 5:1 " See Trapp on " Mic 5:2 " Now, then, as the Israelites frighted and flighted the Midianites with saying, Hic Gideon, Here's Gideon; so may we our spiritual enemies by crying Hic Iesus; Hoc in signo vincemus. This is Jesus, lets us conquer under his standard. Here's Jesus; we are "more than conquerors through him that loved us."
But this shall be with burning,] i.e., With the fire of the Holy Ghost, saith Oecolampadius, burning up our corruptions, as Isa 4:4 and moulding us into a new man. Diodate senseth it thus: The world shall be filled with blood and wars, and at last shall be consumed with fire at the day of judgment.