Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 7:6

6 For the son dishonoureth the father , the daughter riseth up against her mother , the daughter in law against her mother in law ; a mans enemies are the men of his own house .

The Prophet here gives us a reason of his advice to be wary how and whom they trust.

Who received his being, maintenance, education and inherits the honour as well as Estate of his Father, the Son obliged by most inviolable Laws to please, preserve, and honour his Father,

seeks to accuse, vilifie, endanger and ruine.

Whose dishonour and loss, or ruine is also the Sons dishonour and ruine, yet unnatural Treachery will be so rise in those times, that the Father had need keep his guard upon his very Son.

Whose love and affection usually more tender than the Sons towards Parents, yet will forget their duty.

That bare them, that nurst them, that more than Fathers, tend, indulge and bear with them. So monstrous shall the perfidiousness of that Age be.

In Consanguinity there was not any faithfulness, in Affinity much less may you expect it.

The worst and most perilous Enemies, who will be most ready and most able to mischief them.

Among Relations and Retainers, who by Law of God and Nature should have been faithfullest Friends. So it fell out through the Civil Wars of the Jews, in their Seditious, and in their calamitous days. Much like to this is that of Christ, Mat. 10.21, 35, 36.

Marginal references: [illegible: 2 letters]ek. 22.7. [illegible: 1 word] 12.53. [illegible: 1 word]. 16.