So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Ver. 15. So they took the money] So sequacious are such men to sin, where anything is to be gotten by it. Balaam will venture hard for the wages of wickedness. Set but a wedge of gold in sight, and Joshua, that could stop the sun in his course, cannot stay Achan from fingering it.
And this saying is commonly reported] They were given up to believe this lie, "because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved," 2 Thessalonians 2:10. There are those who sense it otherwise. This saying is commonly reported; that is, this vile imposture of the priests and soldiers, wretchedly conspiring to cozen (deceive) the world with such a base lie, is sufficiently known for a piece of knavery, and is so resented to this day. Think the same of the Trent conventicle carried by the pope and his agents with so much finesse, &c., but so as now all is come out, to their eternal infamy.