28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.



Ver. 28. Sitting in his chariot, read] Time is to be redeemed for holy uses. Pliny seeing his nephew walking for his pleasure, called to him, and said, Poteras hasce horas non perdidisse; You might have better bestowed your time than so. Nullus mihi per otium dies exit, A day pased in leasure is nothing to me, saith Seneca. And Jerome exhorted some godly women, to whom he wrote, not to lay the Bible out of their hands, until being overcome with sleep, they bowed down their heads, as it were to salute the leaves below them with a kiss.