And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Ver. 6. And John was clothed, &c.] Elias also was a rough hairy man. Those worthies, of "whom the world was not worthy, wandered about in sheep's skins and goat's skins," Hebrews 11:37; but they were like the ark, goat's hair without, but pure gold within; or like Brutus' staff, Cuius intus solidum aurum corneo velabatur eortiee. (Plutarch.) Buchanan seldom cared for a better outside than a rug gown girt close about him, yet his inside was most rich.
He did eat locusts] Good meat (to those there at least) though coarse, and easily come by. Tartarians eat the carrion carcases of horses, camels, asses, cats, dogs, yea, when they stink, and are full of magots, and hold them as dainty as we do venison.