Who say, (a) [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the (b) caldron, and we [are] the flesh.
(a) Thus the wicked derided the prophets as though they preached only errors, and therefore gave themselves still to their pleasures.
(b) We will not be pulled out of Jerusalem, till the hour of our death comes, as the flesh is not taken out of the caldron until it is boiled.