And he shall say - Repudiating his former claims, I am a husbandman: for a man has taught me from my youth. There was no room then …

Taught ... cattle. —Better, acquired, or bought me. He pretends to be a purchased slave, kept hard at work, and therefor…

They shall be so ashamed of it that to have kept cattle shall seem a far more noble employment than to have falsely set up as a prophet of the Lord…

He describes repentance in this verse more fully. When Paul wanted to exhort the faithful to newness of life, he said,

“Let him who has …

But he shall say, I [am] no prophet
That he is not of the Romish clergy, or of any of their religious orders, having…

In the time mentioned at the close of the previous chapter, a fountain would be opened to the rulers and people of the Jews, in which to wash away …