And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
Ver. 23. And as they cried] A graphic description of their unreasonable rage and rout. Well might our Saviour say, Beware of men acted and agitated by the devil, Matthew 10:17; and St Paul pray to be delivered from absurd and wicked men, 2 Thessalonians 3:2, as bad as those beasts that he encountered at Ephesus, 1 Corinthians 15:32. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fry of furious fools in their folly, Proverbs 17:12 .