Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 32:5

5. The vile person shall be no more called liberal , nor the churl said to be bountiful.

Base and worthless Men. Heb. the fool: which in Scripture-use commonly signifies a wicked Man.

Or, Noble, or a Prince, or Lord, as this word is used, Psal. 118. 9. and 146. 3. and elsewhere. The Sence of the place [illegible: 1+ letters]s, Either 1. Unworthy Men shall not be advanced to places of Honour and Power, as the Seventy, and some others understand it; for, to be called, is oft put in Scripture for, to be, as hath been frequently observed. Or 2. vicious and worthless Persons shall no longer be reputed Honourable and Vertuous, because of their high and honourable Places, as commonly they are under wicked Princes, by means of Flatterers; but Wickedness shall be discovered and punished wheresoever it is, and Vertue shall be manifested and rewarded; and all things shall be Managed with sincerity and simplicity: Which was eminently fulfilled under the Gospel; by the Preaching whereof, and by Christ's Spirit, Hypocrites are detected, and Men are enabled to discern between Good and Evil, both Persons and Things.

The fordid and covetous Man; which is a great Vice in any Man, but especially in Magistrates; who therefore must be Men hating covetousness, Exod. 18. 21. But under this one Vice, all Vices are understood by a Synecdoche, very frequent in Scripture, and in other Authors, as under the opposite Vertue of bountifulness, all Vices are comprehended.

Marginal references: Or, honourable.