And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

Ver. 16. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out.] They shall be no more excused by their having been deluded, than he that in his drink committeth adultery or murder is excused by his drunkenness. A drunkard, saith Aristotle, deserveth double punishment: a first for his drunkenness, and then for the sin committed in and by his drunkenness; so here. See on Jeremiah 14:15 .

a τοις μεθυουσι διπλα τα επιτιμια. - Ethic., lib. iii. cap. 5.

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