Jos_9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Ver. 4. They did work wilily.] They exercised a serpentine subtilty, and dealt fraudulently, as Gen_3:1; but where was their columbine simplicity? {Mat_10:16} They strain hard to save their lives. But a man should rather die than lie.