Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.
Ver. 20. Behold, I am against your pillows.] God's hatred against sin is such that he hateth anything that is made use of about it. The serpent was cursed because he had been abused by the devil.
To make them fly.] High pitches, αεροβατουντις : as our high attainers, with their new truths and strange speculations, do now pretend to do. Such were the Swenkfeldians - Stinkfeldians, Luther called them, for their ill savour. Swenkfeldius himself bewitched many with those lofty terms, which were much in his mouth, of illumination, revelation, deification, the inward and spiritual man, &c. a
a Scultet. Annal.