might have been rendered as agreeably to the original, and much more agreeably to the preceding verses, and the drift of the historian, ‘Out of that land he went forth into Ashur, and built Nineveh etc.’ ”30 Edwards does the same thing with Isaiah 40:15: “ ‘He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.’ A very fine remark, and a solid correction of the common translation, is here made by that learned, sagacious, and devout expositor, Vitringa. He observes that the common translation is neither answerable