Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Ver. 19. Did not Moses give you the law] q.d. You bear me still an old grudge, an aching tooth, for healing an impotent man upon the sabbath day, John 5:9. But Quis tulerit Gracchos, &c. (Juv.) Yourselves are greater sabbath breakers a fair deal. Publius Clodius (the most irreligious of all the Romans), religionem in Ciceronis domo neglectam questus est, complained of Cicero's family, for neglect of religion. a Who so forward to cry, Treason, treason, as Athaliah the arch-traitor alive? and who cry out so much, Persecution, persecution, as Papists and other fierce persecutors?
a Cicero de Harusp. Respons.