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John Trapp on Ezekiel 34:3

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Ezekiel34:3

Ver. 3. Ye eat the fat] Ecce, lac & lanam recipitis: this ye might do, if in meaſure; for the workman is worthy of his wages; ſee 1 Cor. 9.7. but ye gorge your ſelves with the beſt of the beſt: & ſi ventri benè, ſi lateri, as Epicurus in Horace, if the belly may be filled, the back fitted, that's all you take care for. In parabola ovis capras quaeritis, & veſtrum maximè compendium ſpectatis, ye are all for your own ends, nouriſhing your hearts as in a day of ſlaughter, or of good chear, Jam. 5.5.

Ye kill them that are fed] Heb. ye ſacrifice them, ſo ye pretend, but mind your own fat paunches: See Prov. 7.14.

But ye feed not the flock] As being falſi & ſicti imò picti paſtores, mock-ſhepherds.

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