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Jdg_18:20 And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
Ver. 20. And the priest’s heart was glad.] Every wind can raise a bubble: profit and preferment carry those any way that are worldly minded in the ministry. It was therefore excellent counsel Luther gave preachers, to see to it, that these three dogs did not follow them into the pulpit, - ambition, covetousness, and envy or contentiousness.
And went in the midst of the people.] With all his trash and trinkets; either for his own greater security, or else in an apish imitation of the ark’s marching in the midst of the tribes.