Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Ver. 19. Thou shall love thy neighbour, &c.] Which because thou doest not (as appears, because thou wilt not part with thy possessions to relieve the poor), therefore much less doest thou love God, and therefore art not the man thou takest thyself for. Civil men overween a themselves, and boast of their moral righteousness; yet make no conscience of the lesser breaches of the second table, nor yet of contemplative wickedness, which yet angereth God,Genesis 6:6, and lets in the devil, 2Co 10:8-18 And these are the world's very honest men, for lack of better, as a cab of doves' dung was expensive food in the famine of Samaria, when better could not be had.
a To have too high expectations, or too high an opinion of oneself; to be conceited, arrogant, presumptuous, or too self-confident; to presume. ŒD