And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
Ver. 4. And no man taketh, &c.] Or if he do, he shall smoke and smart for it, as did Nadab and Abihu, Uzzah and Uzziah, &c. In physicis aer non facit seipsum ignem, sed fit a superiori, as Aquinas noteth upon ft, is text. No man might come uncalled to the king of Persia upon pain of death. What then shall become of such as come without a call to the King of heaven? Christ would not let the devil preach him,Mark 1:13, quia extra vocationem, as one well notes, because he had no calling to such an office.