And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. His pride, it seems, was not yet humbled; he could not brook the shame of a return. Glad to keep life in any how, behold the son sunk into a swine-herd; among the Jews, to whom swine's flesh was prohibited, emphatically vile! He, says Trench, who begins by using the world as a servant, to minister to his pleasure, ends by reversing the relationship.