Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Ver. 3. Saying, Thou wentest in, &c.] This was now no fault, but in their conceit only. Ignorance is the mother of many mistakes, and miscarriages thereupon. How exceedingly was Job miscensured by his friends; Gideon and Jephthah by the Ephraimites, Judges 8:1; Judges 12:1; the two tribes and half by their brethren, Joshua 22:11,12. Athanasius passed for a sacrilegious person, a profane wretch, a bloody persecutor, a blasphemer of God, &c. Cyril and Theodoret excommunicated one another for heresy, Postea comperti idem sentire, upon a mere mistake. Basil complains that he was hardly dealt with by brethren that were of the same judgment with himself, but understood him not. Augustine had suffered so long in this kind, that at length he thus resolves, Non curo illos censores qui vel non intelligendo reprehendunt, vel reprehendendo non intelligunt: I care not for those blind censurers that speak evil of what they know not, and of those they understand not. a Charity would teach them to take everything the best way; and not, as logicians do, sequi partem deteriorem, to pick out the worst.
a Cont. Faust. xxii. 34.