Isaiah 30:16

Isa 30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Ver. 16. But ye said, No. ] We will not return or rest. This is a golden rule of life, In silentio et spe fortitudo vestra; but these refractories would have none of it, they knew a better way to work than all that came to. Politicians are like tumblers, that have their heads on the earth and their heels against heaven. Cross-grained they are for the most part to all good.

For we will flee upon horses. ] Whereof Egypt was full, and for which it was famous of old, and so is yet, for the Mamelukes’ horses especially.

Therefore shall ye flee. ] But in another sense, sc., fusi fugatique ab hoste, with the enemy at your heels.