But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ver. 13. But the house of Israel rebelled.] They did little else; they made it their trade for forty years long. Psa 95:8-11
And my Sabbaths they greatly polluted.] They vehemently violated; either they rested only thereon, or else they shamelessly troubled and disquieted that sanctified day of God's rest. The world, saith one, a is now grown perfectly profane, and can play on the Lord's-day without book.
Then I said, I would pour out my fury.] God's sayings are of two sorts; some are the sayings of his eternal counsel, and these are immutable; others of his threatening only, and these oft are conditional. God therefore threateneth that he may not punish, saith an ancient.
a Bishop King on Jonah.