Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not.] Say that the righteous cannot prevail by their apologies for themselves and others, God will take the matter into his own hand, and avenge them, Luk 18:7 as he did the primitive Christians and the French Protestants, upon their merciless persecutors.

“ Tu, vero, Herodes sanguinolente, time. ”

As Beza warned Charles IX, author of the massacre.

But the house of the righteous shall stand.] God's house, the Church, shall; as the gloss applies this text, "The mountain of the Lord shall be exalted above all mountains." The Church, because it is highest in the favour of God, so it shall be highest in itself; when the enemies shall be in that place that is fittest for them, the lowest, that is the footstool of Christ. There is a council in heaven will dash the mould of all contrary counsels upon earth. Psa 2:1-12 Gaudeo quod Christus dominus est: alioqui totus desperassem; - ‘ I am glad yet that Christ is king; for otherwise I should have been utterly out of hope,' writes Miconius to Calvin, upon the view of the Church's enemies.