The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Ver. 8. The wise in heart shall receive commandment,] i.e., Submit to God's holy word without replies and cavils. This is check to the brave gallants of our age, which exercise their ripe heads and fresh wits in wrestling with the truth of God, and take it for a glory to give it a foil. The Athenians encountered with Paul, and had argument for argument against him, that Christ was not the Saviour of the world, that he was not risen from the dead, &c. This shewed they were not wise in heart, though reckoned chief among the world's wizards.
But a prating fool shall fall.] Or, Be beaten. Such a fool was Diotrephes, who prated or trifled φλυαρει , 3Jn 1:10 against St John with malicious words, and might have been therefore surnamed Nugax, as Rodulphus, that succeeded Anselm in the see of Canterbury, was. a
a Godwin's Catal.