Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Ver. 3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite] This was one of Sanballat's good brethren, Nehemiah 4:2. A bird of the same feather, a loaf of the same leaven, his fellow scoffer, and so homine peior, saith Chrysostom, worse than a man; as the scoffed that beareth it well, is Angelis par, saith he, an angel's peer.
Even that which they build, if a fox go up, &c.] It was some such bitter jeer that Remus uttered in contempt of Romulus's new wall, and was knocked on the head for it. Hae sannae leniter volant, non leniter violant.