Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

"I have :" The Vatican manuscript has the first person singular, and the Polyglot the third person plural. The Vulgate reading offers an excellent meaning. The covetous man, during life, seems to have cast away the bowels of compassion for his suffering fellow-men.

Freemen will not consider it disgraceful to perform humble offices for an intelligent and Tfaithful servant. Prov. xvii. 2. 35 2 Kings xii. 13. " And well instructed." This is another explanation of the same term.