If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ver. 3. He blow the trumpet.] Hence the ancients a infer that a bishop must preach, and that Praelati officium est sollicitudo non celsitudo. He taketh upon him the office of a constant preacher, saith Gregory, that undertaketh to be a minister.
a Clemens, Bernard.