But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Ver. 3. To them that are lost] It is a sign of a reprobate goat,John 8:43; John 8:47 "Sensual, having not the Spirit," Judges 1:19. The devil holds his black hand before their eyes, that they may fall blindling into hell. Herein he dealeth as the eagle, which setting on the hart, saith Pliny, lights upon his horns, and there flutters up and down, filling his eyes with dust borne in her feathers, that at last he may cast himself from a rock.