And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Ver. 18. I have not troubled Israel; but thou, &c.] This was prophet-like plain dealing; such as was afterwards also used by Micaiah, Elisha, Jeremiah, John Baptist, Athenagoras, Athanasius Chrysostom, qui peccata tanta severitate arguebat ac si ipse etiam per iniuriam laesus esset: et omnium ordinum delicta magna dicendi libertate taxabat, who spared none for their greatness, but with all boldness reproved them for their faults; taking the same liberty to cry down sins, that men of all ranks took to commit them. a
a Osiand. Hist. Eccles., cent. 5, lib. i. cap. 6.