Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
Ver. 24. You have been rebellious.] Here he repeats the former charge, Deu 9:7 which now he had sufficiently proved against them: we must object no more against any man than we are able to make good. If Erasmus had lived to these days, very shame would have crammed those words of his down his throat: Ubicunque regnat Lutherus, ibi literature est interitus: duo tantum quaerunt, censure et uxorem. a Wheresoever Luther's doctrine takes place, learning is little set by; all the care is for a wife, and for wealth. Os durum!
a Erasmus, Ep. ad Bilibald.