And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard [it]: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Ver. 7. The men were grieved, and very wroth.] A pair of unruly passions, when combined, especially: they ride one upon the back of another, as kine do in a strait passage; and will make an Alexander kill his best friends, such as he would afterwards have revived, with the best and warmest blood in his own heart.
“Qui non moderabitur irae,
Infectum velit esse, dolor quod suaserit, et mens.”
- Horat.
Because he had wrought folly in Israel.] That is, in the Church, where fornication should "not be once named," much less committed. Eph 5:3 Sin is odious anywhere; most of all among saints. A thistle is unseemly in a garden, filthiness in a vestal, baseness in a prince. And yet, by the malice of Satan, there are, many times, more scandals in the Church than else where: such incest at Corinth, 1Co 5:1 as not among heathens; such folly in Jacob's family, as not at Shechem, or Seir. "Sodom, thy sister, hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters." Eze 16:48 This is lamentable!