Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Ver. 26. Her priests have violated my law.] a By infringing, and enforcing it to speak what it never meant; to go two miles when it would go but one, &c.
They have put no difference.] They have not taken out the precious from the vile, but made it open tide, and admitted all pellmell, as they say.
And have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths,] i.e., Either framed excuse that they might themselves break it; or else connived at others that have.
a Plane palamque contra faciunt, quam ipsis imperavi lege. - Jun.