Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Ver. 26. Ye stand upon your sword.] Vivitur ex rapto. He that hath the longest sword carrieth it among you: ye are also very revengeful, ready to say with him in the poet,
“ Virtus mihi numeri, et ensis
Quem teneo.
Dextra mihi deus, et telum quod missile libro. ” a
Ye work abomination.] This R. Solomon understandeth de venere obscaeniore. It is in the original, Ye women work abomination, as prostituting yourselves to an unnatural filthiness, as the casuists complain still of some Spanish courtezans. b
And shall ye possess the land,] q.d., Ye shall be set up: what should you expect better than exilium et excitium, banishment and destruction?
a Caparene ap. Statum. Theb., 2. Mezent. ap. Virg. Aeneid, 10.
b Martin Vivald., in Candelab.