When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
Ver. 22. They marvelled and left him, and went their way] With a flea in their ear, as we say.
" Demitto auriculas ut iniquae mentis asellus. " Hor.
Confounded they were that they were so disappointed. Christ shaped them such an answer, as they could neither dislike nor digest. "The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh in darkness," Ecclesiastes 2:14. Ad poenitentiara properat, cito qui iudicat. He that precipitates a censure shall soon see cause to repent him. How often doth an open mouth prove a man's purgatory? We had great need therefore carry a pair of balances between our lips, lest we be entangled in our talk. For,
" Sic licet in partes circumspectissimus omnes,
Nemo tamen vulpes, nemo cavere potest. "