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1Sa_8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
Ver. 9. Now therefore hearken.] See 1Sa_8:7.
Protest solemnly unto them.] That they may fall with open eyes, and be left as inexcusable as they are wilful.
And show them the manner of the king.] Rationem istam, ðáìâéóéëåéáí , {a} how he will domineer with Sic volo, sic iubeo: setting up his will for a law, as an absolute monarch. {Luk_22:25}
{a} Arist., De Politic., p. 3.