16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?



Ver. 16. They said unto his disciples] They dared not say it to him, where the hedge is lowest the beast breaks over. The devil, as the poet- quae desperat renitescere posse, relinquit. What he hopes not to effect, he never attempts. (Horat. de Arte Poet.)