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Yea, they are greedy dogs which have never enough,] He persists still in his Me∣taphor of dogs, and sheweth them to be like dogs in this also, that they are greedy of gain, as dogs are of meat.
And they are shepherds that cannot un∣derstand:] He calls them shepherds here, whom he called watchmen before, and whom he reprehended and described un∣der the Metaphor or similitude of Dogs; and therefore doth he call them shepherds, because they should feed the people com∣mitted to them, and guide them in the right way, as shepherds do their flocks.
That cannot understand:] He said, that they were blinde, and ignorant of the Law of God, vers. 10. And here he sheweth, that they cannot heal that blindness, and overcome that ignorance, because partly their Idleness, partly their Covetousness, and looking after gain, hindered them from studying the Law of God, and me∣ditating therein, whereby they might come to understand.
Yet some make these a meer repetition of those words, to wit, His watchmen are become blinde.
They all look to their own way, every one for his gain from his quarters.] q. d. They all of them have their several ways and prac∣tices to get mony, and they are every one wholy intent upon those their ways and practices.
This is the sence of these words; but the words themselves seem to be Metapho∣rical, and the Metaphor to be drawn from a man, who expecting some welcom guest, stands at the door of his house, and looks that way which his guest is to come, to see if he can see him coming.
To their own way,] Under the Metaphor of a way, he meaneth their practices and courses to get mony; which he calls their own way, either in opposition to the way of God, as not being the way in which God would have them to walk in, but which they themselves either chose or found out for themselves; Or else because every one of them had his own peculiar way to get gain.
For his gain,] He doth here compare gain to a welcom guest, which a man ex∣pects at his house.
From his quarters.] i. e. From his house or place of aboad.
This appertains to the Metaphor last mentioned.