Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
Ver. 21. Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh.] Snarling at and intertearing one another, as dogs, about the kingly dignity, or some other reasonless reason. Thus the prophet exemplifieth what he had spoken.
And they together shall be against Judah.] So Herod and Pilate could unite against Christ, Luk 23:7-9 and those that were at greatest enmity among themselves against the Church. Psalms 83:5 ; Psa 83:8 So in Julian the apostate's time Jews and Gentiles combined against Christians; and in our days Papists and Lutherans against Calvinists. a How unworthily and impotently do the Lutherans of Suevia rail upon that holy man Oecolampadius, whose note it is upon this text, that these last dangerous times were foretold by St Paul. 2Ti 3:1-2 Annon eosdem describunt Paulus et Iesaias? saith he: Do not Paul and Isaiah describe the same men? Bullinger observeth concerning the Anabaptists of Germany, that as they are at great odds among themselves, so they all agree against goldly ministers of the truth, to despise and disparage them to the utmost.
a In Syngram.