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Jer_15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
Ver. 10. Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me,] scil., In such an age wherein I may not pray for my people, nor can preach unto them to any good purpose. Buchanan bewailed it that he was born nec coelo, nec solo, nec coeculo erudite. {a} Jeremiah lamenteth here for a worse matter. Surely he might well say for his manifold sufferings:
“ Littora quot conchas, quot amaens rosaria flores,
Quotque soporiferum grana papaver habet;
premor salversis, ”& c.
- Ovid., Trist.
A man of strife and a man of contention.] {b} Generally opposed and quarrelled, for my free and faithful discharge of my duty. This is the world’s wages to godly ministers, whom they usually make their buttmark. But God be thanked, saith he with Jerome, quod dignus sim quem mundus oderit, that I am worthy whom the world should hate. Lutherus pascitur convitiis, saith he of himself, Luther is fed with reproaches.
I have neither lent on usury,] i.e., I have neither bought nor sold, as we say, meddled nor made with them. I have had as little to do with them any way as was possible. Usura praecipuum fomentum litium. Usuary particularily starts quarrels. I have kept myself close to my calling, and yet I cannot avoid their variance and virulencies. To preach is to derive upon a man’s self the hatred of the world, saith Luther.
{a} Camden’s Elisabeth.
{b} Virum arguentem. - Arab.