And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Ver. 25. And I will turn my hand upon thee.] So Zechariah 13:7, I will turn my hand upon the little ones; so soon doth it repent the Lord concerning his servants. Here he mitigateth the former fearful menace, and promiseth a reformation.
And purely purge away thy dross.] Et expurgabo, ut purificativum, scorias tuas. The wicked are the dross of the state, Psa 119:119 and wickedness is the dross and dregs of the soul. Proverbs 17:3 ; Pro 27:21 God promiseth her to purge out both, to separate the precious from the vile, to reform and refine all - a metaphor from metallaries.
And I will take away all thy tin.] Thine hypocrisy: for tin hath a show of silver, but it is not so - nay, it is a deadly enemy to gold and silver, saith one, a making them hard and brittle. It is also a tyrant over them, and will hardly be separated from them. Hereby are figured your most noted, rooted, and inveterate sins.
a Diod.