And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Ver. 29. And ye shall eat.] As they did. 2Ki 6:29 Lam 4:19 Pone pretium humanae corni, was once heard openly proclaimed at Rome in the reign of Honorius the Emperor. A hard case indeed. Here in England, in Edward II's time, anno 1316, there was so terrible a famine, that horses, dogs, yea, men and children, were stolen for food, and the thieves newly brought into the jail were torn in pieces, and eaten presently half alive, by such as had been longer there. a
a Alsted, Chron. Speed's Hist.