Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Ver. 26. And the third unto the seventh] Happy it was, if seeing their brethren fall so fast, themselves were warned to number their own days and provide for death's coming. But this is not easily done; for we naturally dream of an immortality, Psalms 49:11; and it is death to us to think of death, though we see so many daily die before us. It fareth with us for the most part as with fatting cattle. The butcher comes today, and fetcheth away one, tomorrow and fetcheth away another, &c. The rest that are left behind do neither miss their fellows nor dread their own destiny. So here, this is brutish stupidity, shake it off.