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2Ki_10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
Ver. 2. Now as soon as this letter cometh to you.] A concise and stately kind of writing, much like that of the king of Syria to the king of Israel. {2Ki_5:6} So the Hebrews note of Esau, in his meeting with Jacob, {Gen_33:4-15} that he uttereth his mind in few words, whenas Jacob is more full and fuse in his expressions. But ornamentum epistolae est ornamentis carere, saith a master of rhetoric, {a} Plainness is the greatest grace of an epistle.
{a} Politian.