I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Ver. 43. I was a stranger, &c.] These fools of the people had a price in their hands to get heaven (as Joseph by his bounty bought the land of Egypt), but they had no heart to it, Proverbs 17:16. Richard son to Henry III of England was elected king of Romans, being preferred therein before Alphonsus king of Spain, his competitor. The Spaniard pretended and complained to have been first elected. But being, it seems, a great mathematician, he was drawing lines when he should have drawn out his purse, and so came anticipating his hopes. a And is not this many an Englishman's fault and folly?
a Daniel's Hist. of England, 174.