And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
Ver. 11. Made him horns of iron.] After the manner of the true prophets of God, who usually, to the word they spake, added such outward sensible signs.
With these shalt thou push the Syrians.] Thus this horned beast vapoured and vaunted. Augustine observed of Primianus and Maximianus, that they were jolly fellows in a faction. Else, said he, Primianus might have been Postremianus, and Maximianus Minimianus.