Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.
Ver. 18. The house of Israel is to me become dross.] Recrementum argenti; offal stuff. Silver they were once, but now nothing less. Haec ad nos quoque transferenda sunt. This is even our case; we are quite degenerate, and altogether unlike our zealous progenitors.
“ Heu! pietas ubi prisca! profana O tempora! Mundi
Faex, vesper, prope nox! O Mora! Christe veni. ”
All they are brass. ] See on Isaiah 1:22 .