Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Ver. 33. Now therefore we are all, &c.] All of a mind to serve the Lord with one shoulder, Zephaniah 3:9; as Hezekiah's servants joined together in that laudable work of copying out those proverbs of Solomon for the Church's use, Proverbs 25:1 .
Present before God] Whom we look full in the face, ενωπιον, seeing him by faith who is invisible, and setting ourselves to receive the law at his mouth, to hear the word, not of a mortal man, but of the everliving God.
To hear all things] sc. With due reverence and diligence; not to jeer at anything that is commanded thee of God, that hath the stamp and impress of God upon it, that comes cum privilegio, and appears to be cor et anima Dei (as Gregory calleth the word), the counsel and mind of God. Lo, these were right hearers. Oh for such in this day! Ours (alas) have corpora in sacellis, animos in sacculis, as Ezekiel's had, Ezekiel 33:31, and as serpents have their bodies in the water, but their heads out.