When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Madman. The extravagant motions of the false prophets caused even the true ones to be treated with contempt. Warriors are but too apt to give way to sentiments of irreligion, ( Menochius.) and to despise men who lead a retired and penitential life. Bible.—How often were Ezechiel and Jeremias treated as fools, (Ezekiel 33:30. Jeremias 29:26. Calmet.) as well as our divine Saviour? The pagans looked upon those who were inspired by Apollo in the same light. Bible.—Ut primum cessit furor & rabida ora quierunt, Virg. Æneid vi. “What authority has this fury, which you call divine, that the insane should behold what escapes the observation of the wise, and that he who has lost common (human) sense should possess divine?” ea videat insanus, & is qui humanos sensus amiserit, divinos assecutus sit? Cicero Divin. ii.