Ezekiel 17:8

Eze 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

Ver. 8. It was planted in a good soil. ] He was well enough, if he could have kept him so.

“ O fortunates homines, bona si sun norint! ”

But discontent enjoyeth nothing: Zedekiah liketh not to be a vine, he must be a cedar. Aut Caesar aut nullus. Either Caesar or nothing.