And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.
Ver. 14. And he will take your fields, &c.] As if you were not masters of so much as a molehill, but all were his. But what saith God? "The prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of possession." Eze 46:18 And what saith Seneca? Non civium servitutem Regi traditam sed tutelam, a And what said the clergy of England to Rustand, the Pope's legate, when he said that all the churches were the Pope's? They answered, that they might be so tuitione, non fruitione … defensione, non dissipatione. b
a De Clem., lib. i. cap. 18.
b Jacob. Rev., De Vit. Pont.