And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Ver. 6. They shall die of a great pestilence.] See Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 18:21. Hippocrates calleth the pestilence το θειον, the divine disease; because there is much of God's hand in it, like as there was here in the sweating sickness, wherewith the English only were chased, not only in England, but in all countries. a
a Sir John Heywood's Life of Edward VI