The teacher cuts off the plea which people make when they have hurt their neighbor by lies, that they “did not mean mischief,” that they were “only…

Firebrands. —Arrows to which some blazing material was attached, in order that they might set on fire whatever they touched.

As a mad [man], who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death.
Or the instruments of death, as Aben Ezra; or the sharp a…

He who sins in jest, must repent in earnest, or his sin will be his ruin.