When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:
Ver. 1. When thou sittest to eat.] See my Common Place of Abstinence.
Consider diligently what is before thee.] And "feed with fear," Jdg 1:12 lest thou lose by thy luxury that praise and preferment that thou hadst gotten by thine industry. Pro 22:9
‘Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri.'