Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Ver. 12. Let us swallow them up alive.] As the devil doth. 1 Peter 5:8 2Ti 2:26 Homo homini demon. The poor Indians have been heard to say, it had been better that their country had been given to the devils of hell than to the Spaniards; and that if the cruel Spaniards go to heaven when they die, they, for their parts, desire not to come there.