4. I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly. The Lord bids the boasters boast not, and commands the mad oppressors
to stay their folly. How calm is he, how quiet are his words, yet how divine
the rebuke. If the wicked were not insane, they would even now hear in the
consciences the still small voice bidding them cease from evil, and forbear
their pride. And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn. He bids the
ungodly stay their haughtiness. The horn was the emblem of boastful power; only
the foolish, like wild beasts, will lift it high; but they assail heaven with
it as if they would gore the Almighty himself. In dignified majesty he rebukes
the inane glories of the wicked, who beyond measure exalt themselves in the day
of their fancied power.
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