Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
Ver. 18. Neither sons nor daughtens,] a Though never so dear to them: τα φιλτατα, the Greeks call them.
a Omnis pestilentiae coeca et delitescens est causa. - Fernel.