And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.
Ver. 28. Thou hast now done foolishly.] And yet he had done no more than God bade him do. Wretched men dare reprehend that which they do not comprehend. But if a wise man speak evil of thee, or to thee, endure him; if a fool, pardon him. Shake off reproaches and hard censures, as Paul did the viper; yea, in a holy scorn, laugh at them, as the wild ass doth at the horse and his rider. "Diotrephes prates against us," saith St John. 3Jn 1:10 In the Greek (φλυαξει) it is, " trifles against us with malicious words." Although his words were malicious, and he a great man, yet all was but trifles to a clear conscience.