Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Ver. 24. Therefore I will scatter them.] This was no small aggravation of their misery, that they should be thus severed one from another. So the persecutors of the primitive times relegated and confined the poor Christians to isles and mines, where they could not have access one to another for mutual comfort and support, as Cyprian complaineth. a
a Cyprian. Epist.