Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
Ver. 7. Well did Esaias prophesy of you] Of such as you, and so of you too. The prophets and apostles then spake not of them only with whom they lived, and to whom they wrote (as the Jesuits blaspheme), but their oracles and doctrines do extend still to men of the same stamp and making. "In the volume of thy book it is written of me," saith David, Psalms 40:7; he found his own name in God's book. And where he spake with Jacob at Bethel, there he spake with us, saith Hosea; Hos 12:4 and, "Whatsoever was written, was written for our learning," saith Paul, Romans 15:4 .