Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and it [is] a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Ver. 20. Is it not a little one?] Let no man use this plea for his sin. Even the philosopher a tells us, that the smallest errors prove many times most dangerous. It is as much treason to coin pence, as bigger pieces.
a Aδικηματα ελαχιστα πολλακις μεγιστα - Arist. Rhet., lib. i.