And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
Ver. 34. For the fall, &c.] Being reorum scopulus, piorum rupes.
And for a sign, &c.] For a butt mark, against whom his enemies shall shoot the shafts of their gainsayings; like as at the sack of Constantinople, the image of the crucifix was taken down by the Turks, and a Turk's cap put upon the head thereof, and so set up, and shot at with their arrows, calling it the God of the Christians.