And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Ver. 30. Are have troubled me.] In mind and estate, a and many such trouble houses and trouble towns there are abroad. All places are full of them, and so is hell too. There God will trouble them another while, as he did Achan, Jos 7:25 when he will show mercy to such Jacobs in whose families that is committed that they abhor.
I being few in, number.] So the saints were ever a little flock, a poor few to the many; jewels, nothing so much in bulk as lumber; strangers, few, in respect of home dwellers; sons of God, few, to common subjects. When Christ "came to his own, his own received him not." Joh 1:12 He wondered at one good Nathanael, and set a "Behold" upon him, as a rare bird. Joh 1:47
a Cum in animo tum in rationibus. - Jun.