Eat; maintain themselves and their followers, nay, live in luxury and excess, revelling in banquets and feasts, as the word is many times used, Amo 6:4<\/span>. <\/P> The flesh; the estates, goods, and livelihood of their subjects, neighbours, and brethren. <\/P> My people; whom I have chosen, maintained, and allotted an inheritance unto, of whom I once said, Who toucheth them toucheth the apple of mine eye, Deu 32:10<\/span>; Zec 2:8<\/span>. <\/P> Flay their skin from off them; with barbarous cruelty and unheard-of injustice strip off (as butchers strip the sheep they kill) the very skin; or as hunters, which having taken the prey, wearied and worried first by their dogs, do strip off the skin to sell, and eat the flesh in feasts and riotous banquetings. <\/P> They break their bones; an allusion to wolves, boars, or lions, which devour the flesh, tear the skin, and break the bones of the innocent, weak, and defenseless lambs or sheep; thus our prophet tells these rulers plainly what they were, did, and how barbarously cruel and wicked. <\/P> Chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron: these bloody murderers, princes, and chieftains are here compared to cooks, and the subjects, weak neighbours, are compared to the bare bones which the cook doth by his art prepare for the pot, and to the flesh cut small for the caldron, that all might be boiled and extracted out to make pottage, and delicious broths or jellies: thus the great ones used the meaner sort, who lived under their jurisdiction. Possibly the prophet may aim at the bloody, cruel, and devouring times under Shallum, &c., or to that reported of Menahem, 2Ki 15:16<\/span>, when probably much of this was done according to the very letter. <\/P> <\/p>\n 3. pot . . . flesh within . . .caldron<\/B>manifold species of cruel oppressions. Compare Eze24:3<\/span>, &c., containing, as to the coming punishment, the samefigure as is here used of the sin: implying that the sin andpunishment exactly correspond.<\/P><\/p>\n Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins from off them<\/strong>,…. Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty. So the Targum,<\/p>\n “who spoil the substance of my people, and their precious mammon they take from them;”<\/p>\n and what aggravated their guilt was, that they were the Lord’s people by profession and religion they so used; whom he had committed to their care to rule over, protect, and defend:<\/p>\n and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron<\/strong>: did with them as cooks do, who not only cut flesh off the bones, and into slices, but break the bones themselves, to get out the marrow, and chop them small, that they may have all the virtue that is in them, to make their soup and broth the richer; by which is signified, that these wicked and avaricious rulers took every method to squeeze the people, and get all their wealth and riches into their hands, that they might have in a more riotous and luxurious manner.<\/p>\n They devour, he says, the flesh of my people, and their skin they strip off from them, and their bones they break in pieces and make small, as that which into the pot is thrown, and which is in the midst of the caldron (95) For when any one throws meat into the pot, he does not take the whole ox, but cuts it into pieces, and having broken it, he then fills with these pieces his pot or his caldron. The Prophet then enhances the cruelty of the princes; they were not content with one kind of oppression, but exercised every species of barbarous cruelty towards the people, and were in every respect like bears, or wolves, or lions, or some other savage beasts, and that they were also like gluttons. We now then perceive the Prophet’s meaning. <\/p>\n Now this passage teaches us what God requires mainly from those in power, — that they abstain from doing injustice: for as they are armed with power, so they ought to be a law to themselves. They assume authority over others; let them then begin with themselves, and restrain themselves from doing evil. For when a private man is disposed to do harm, he is restrained at least by fear of the laws, and dares not to do any thing at his pleasure; but in princes there is a greater boldness; and they are able to do greater injustice: and this is the reason why they ought to observe more forbearance and humanity. Hence levity and paternal kindness especially become princes and those in power. But the Prophet here condemns the princes of his age for what deserved the highest reprehension; and their chief crime was cruelty or inhumanity, inasmuch as they spared not their own subjects. <\/p>\n We now see that the Prophet in no degree flattered the great, though they took great pride in their own dignity. But when he saw that they wickedly and basely abused the power committed to them, he boldly resisted them, and exercised the full boldness of the Spirit. He therefore not only calls them robbers or plunderers of the people; but he says, that they were cruel wild beasts; he says, that they devoured the flesh, tore and pulled it in pieces, and made it small; and he says all this, that he might convey an idea of the various kinds of cruelty which they practiced. Now follow threatenings — <\/p>\n (95) “Under the similitude of butchers the Prophet sets forth their savage cruelty: 1. They take off the skin; 2. They eat the flesh; 3. They break the bones, to pick out the marrow. The insatiable avarice of the princes is described.” — Cocceius. <\/p>\n Mic 3:3<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And flay their skin from off them<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Who, when ye have flayed the skin from off them, and broken their bones, then throw their flesh as into a pot, <\/em>or cauldron. <\/em>These are hyperbolical expressions, to set forth the covetousness and cruelty of the princes of Israel, who, like unnatural shepherds, acted the part of wolves toward their flocks. <\/p>\n Mic 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.<\/p>\n Ver. 3. Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins, &c.<\/strong> ] He still proceeds in the allegory, the better to argue and aggravate their extreme cruelty. Money, saith the heathen, is a man’s flesh, blood, life, all. Of this, when the people were pilled and polled by their cruel princes, who are here compared to butchers and cooks, they are looked upon as not only excoriated, but excarnified, and even exossated, and laid for dead; for mortis habet vices quae trahitur vita genitibus.<\/em> It is a lifeless life that many poor people live for want of necessaries. Such savage shepherds Ezekiel inveighs against, that not only shear their sheep, but hold them and suck their blood, Eze 34:1-10<\/span> . Atqui pastoris est pecus tondere, non deglubere, non carnem et ossa concidere.<\/em> (Tiber. ap. Sueton.). <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chop them in pieces, as for the pot, &c.<\/strong> ] Making no more bones of undoing them and their families than to eat a meal’s meat when hungry; yea, nourishing their hearts therewith, “as in a day of slaughter,” or good cheer, Jas 5:5<\/span> .<\/p>\n chop them in pieces, as for the pot = spread them out, as flesh for the pot. <\/p>\n eat: Psa 14:4 <\/p>\n and chop: Eze 11:3, Eze 11:6, Eze 11:7 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 1:14 – was with rigour Job 19:22 – and are not Job 31:31 – Oh Psa 57:3 – from the reproach of him Psa 94:5 – break Pro 1:12 – swallow Pro 21:10 – findeth no favour Isa 1:21 – it was full Isa 3:15 – ye beat Jer 6:13 – For Eze 7:11 – Violence Eze 22:27 – princes Eze 22:29 – people Eze 24:4 – General Amo 2:6 – because Joh 19:31 – their Act 23:10 – fearing Jam 5:3 – and shall<\/p>\n Mic 3:3. This is more along the same line as the preceding verse.<\/p>\n Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 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