Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.
Ver. 11. Is this house, which is called by my name.] Is it become impiae gentis arcanum? as Florus afterwards spitefully called it; or a professed sanctuary of roguery? as the Papists maliciously say of Geneva; or a receptacle of all abominations? a as Pompey's theatre in Rome was once said to be.
Become a den of robbers?] To such it should have been said by the porters, Gressus removete profani. In the mystical sacrifices of Ceres, no profane person was to be admitted, for the priest going before uttered these words, εκας εκας οστις αλιτρος - that is, be packing every wicked person. So the Roman priests had their procul, O procul este, profani.
a Arx omnium turpitudinum.