They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ver. 8. Let us destroy them together] "Them," that is, the saints; let us prey upon them, as hawks do upon doves: or "them," that is, the temples and schools; these the devil ever sought to destroy, as contrary to his kingdom; and so he doth still by the Turks and Papists and other heretics.
They have burnt up all the synayoyues] These were a kind of chapels of ease to the temple at Jerusalem, and in these the people met frequently, on the sabbath especially, for holy exercises, as we do in our churches. The good centurion built one of these, Luke 7:5. See James 2:2 .