For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Ver. 3. For ye are yet carnal] It is a shame for Christians to be like other men, as Samson was after he had lost his hair. It ill becomes those excellent ones of the earth, princes in all lands, to contend and quarrel, as those terrigenae fratres earthly brothers used to do. By the laws of England, noblemen have this privilege, that none of them can be bound to the peace; because it is supposed that the peace is always bound to them, and that of their own accord they will be careful to preserve it.
Envying and strife, &c.] These overflowings of the gall and spleen came from a fulness of bad humours.
And walk as men] Christians should be as Saul was, higher than the people by head and shoulders. Something singular is expected from them, Matthew 5:47; they should have their feet where other men's heads are, Proverbs 15:24. When we do evil, we work de nostro et secundum hominem, we do our kind, as the devil when he speaks lies, speaks de suo, of his own, John 8:44 .