Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 26:18

18 And they withstood Uzziah the King, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God .

Heb. Stood up against Uzziah, not by force or laying hands upon him to restrain him, for in the next Verse you still find the Censer in his hand; but onely by admonition and reproof, which here follows.

Expect that God will punish thee, or put some brand of Infamy upon thee for this presumption. But this they express modestly, and by a figure called Meiosis, where more is meant than is expressed, because they considered that he to whom they spake, though an Offender, was their Lord and Soveraign.

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