Verse 2
Eze 19:2 And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Ver. 2. What is thy mother? ] Whereby is meant thy city of Jerusalem and people of the Jews, who took these four for their kings, and soon had enough of them.
A lioness. ] So called for her nobleness, courage, and cruelty.
She lay down among lions. ] Alludit ad coitum It signifieth that this state, by conversing with other heathen princes, had been corrupted by them and conformed unto them.
She nourished her whelps among young lions. ] From whom they took in but few good principles for young princes. Wickedness is soon learned Of a certain prince of Germany it was said, Esset alius si esset apud alios, his company undid him: So it did Julian the apostate.
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