And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Ver. 8. And might not be as their fathers] Fathers are not always to be followed, Ezekiel 20:18,19. He zealously affected his fathers, but not well, who said, I will follow them sicut bos armentum, etiamsi ruant, though I fall with them (Cicero Epist.).
A stubborn and rebellious generation] Aver satrix et irritatrix.
A generation that set not, &c.] Double-minded men, unstable in all their ways, James 1:8, having religionem ephemeram, as Beza said of Baldwin, that Ecebolius II.
And whose spirit was not stedfast with God] As was that martyr's who said, Though you may pluck the heart out of nay body, yet you shall never pluck the truth out of my heart. The heavens shall sooner fall, said another, than I will forsake the truth I have once received.