32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.



Ver. 32. Knew not wherefore, &c.] No more do the most of our common hearers. They follow the drove, and believe as the Church believeth. They will say, they come to Church to serve God; but who that God is, how to be served, wherein, and in whom to be served, they know not. Si ventri bene sit, si lateri, as Epicurus in Horace, if the belly may be filled, the back fitted, it sufficeth them.