Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy [it] for the old hatred;
Ver. 15. Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge.] See on Ezekiel 25:12,13. Heathens thought revenge lawful, and tallying of injuries to be but justice. But Christianity teacheth us that non minus mali est referre iniuriam, quam inferre, a
For the old hatred.] The Philistines were of the old inhabitants the Canaanites, and kept up a deadly feud.
a Lactant.