11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.



Ver. 11. In the way of Cain] The devil’s patriarch, the first apostate; this was fulfilled literally in Alphonsus Diazius, who slew his brother John, because he was a Protestant; and mystically, in all that are guilty of spiritual parricide.



And ran greedily] Gr. åîå÷õèçóáí , were poured out, as water out of a bottle; they ran headlong after the wages of wickedness, not caring which way they came by it, so they had it. Instar aquae diffluentis proiecta est eorum intemperies, saith Calvin, their limitless lust-like water, ran all abroad, &c.