And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.
Ver. 7. And I will fan them with a fan.] Not of purgation a as Jer 6:29-30 but of perdition. Such as that, Jeremiah 51:2 .
In the gates of the land.] As men use to winnow grain at a windy door, where the chaff is blown quite away.
a Deo gratias quod lingua Petiliani non sit ventilabrum Christi. - Jerome.