Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
Ver. 9. Now therefore hearken.] See 1 Samuel 8:7 .
Protest solemnly unto them.] That they may fall with open eyes, and be left as inexcusable as they are wilful.
And show them the manner of the king.] Rationem istam, παμβισιλειαν, a how he will domineer with Sic volo, sic iubeo: setting up his will for a law, as an absolute monarch. Luk 22:25
a Arist., De Politic., p. 3.