He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
Ver. 28. He that hath no rule over his own spirit.] Cui non est cohibitio in spiritum suum, that reigns not in his unruly affections, but suffers them to run riot in sin, as so many headstrong horses, or to ride upon the backs one of another, like cattle in a narrow shoot. This man being not fenced with the wall of God's fear, lies open to all assaults of Satan and other enemies; Eph 4:26-27 Jam 4:7 as Laish; Jdg 18:27-28 or Hazor, that had neither gates nor bars; Jer 49:31 or the Hague in Holland, which the inhabitants will not wall, as desiring to have it counted rather the principal village of Europe than a lesser city. a
a Heyl., Geog.