For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Ver. 39. For when they had slain.] When their hands were full of blood, and even reeking hot therewith. This was detestable impudence.
Then they came the same day into my sanctuary.] Citra conscientiam, as if they had done God good service. So Erasmus a telleth of a fierce friar, Augustine of Antwerp, who openly in the pulpit there preaching to the people, wished that Luther were present, that he might bite out his throat with his teeth; so doing he would nothing doubt to resort to the altar with the same bloody teeth, and receive the body of Christ. Fiducia in federibus.
a Eras. Ep., lib. xvi. ad obtrect.