He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Ver. 30. He that is not with me, is against me] "But the devil is not with me," saith Christ, "for all I do or suffer is to destroy his works." Let this sentence also be noted against neutals and Nicodemites, who stand halting betweem two, and will be sure to hold themselves on the warm side of the hedge howsoever. Such were of old the Samaritans, Nazarites, Ebionites, and those Corinthians that would neither "be of Paul, nor Apollos, nor Cephas, but of Christ," 1 Corinthians 1:12; that is, as some neutals say today, they are neither Cavaliers nor Roundheads, but good Protestants; others are neither Papists nor Protestants, but Christians, that is, just nothing, Atheists. Christ hates neutrality, and counts it enmity; he loathes lukewarmness, accepts not any excuse in that case, Judges 5:16,17; Dan and Ephraim are passed by in the reckoning up of the tribes, Revelation 7:5,8, as if they were soldiers put out of pay, and cut out of the rolls. So are all testable indifferents, out of God's book of remembrance,Malachi 3:16,17 .