Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ver. 22. Yea, for thy sake are we killed, &c.] q.d. Thou knowest that for thy sake, and not for vain glory, or out of pertinace, &c., we are killed. It is the cause, and not the punishment, that maketh the martyr. Some suffer as malefactors rather, Potes videre hominem morte affici, quare mortificetur nescis (Aug.).
We are counted as sheep for the slaughter] As those Christians in Calabria, A. D. 1560, thrust up in one house together, as in a sheepfold, and butchered individually; Rom 8:36 besides those many, whose names being written in red letters of blood in the Church's calendar, are written in golden letters in Christ's register in the book of life, as Prudentius hath it.