I have observed another great vanity and misdemeanour amongst men. As an error which proceedeth from the ruler; so the sense is, like those errors which rulers commonly commit. Or rather, which is indeed an error proceeding from the ruler; for the following miscarriage must needs come from those who have power of conferring honour and power, &c. So the Hebrew caph is not a note of likeness, but of reality, as it is Judges 13:23 Nehemiah 7:2 Hosea 4:4, Hosea 5:10, and oft elsewhere.
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Ecclesiastes 10:5
5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth fromb the ruler: