For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Ver. 4. For they will turn away thy son.] As the foreign women did Solomon. 1Ki 11:2-4 What is the reason the Pope will not dispense in Spain or Italy, if a Papist marry a Protestant, yet here they will, but in hope to draw more to them? The tyrant Mezentius tied the living bodies of his captives to the dead; but the dead did not revive by the living, the living rather putrified by the dead. a
a Corpora corporibus iungebat mortua vivis. - Virgil.