The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Ver. 8. The prophets that have been before me, &c., ] q.d., Committamus, Anania, nos tempori, &c. Let us be judged by our peers, or rather by our ancients. It hath been ever usual with true prophets to declaim against the sins of the times, and to proclaim divine vengeance if men amend not. But thou doest nothing less than this: Ergo.
And of evil.] Or, Of famine, that greatest evil of all the three, where it is extreme. a
a Vide Piscat. in Schol.