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For; surely.
They; those luxurious and drinking princes, Hos_7:5.
Have made ready their heart like an oven; do keep close some fire of ambition, revenge, or covetousness, like as a baker keeps a hot fire within his oven.
Whiles they lie in wait, either against the life or estate of some of their fellow subjects, or it may be, as appears Hos_7:7, against the life which they seemed in their cups to pray for.
Their baker sleepeth all the night; he who should watch and prevent mischief is swallowed up in the day with feasting and drunkenness, and sleeps in security all the night, never suspecting the projects of conspirators.
In the morning it burneth as a flaming fire; but when he awakes too late, he seeth all in flames, and past quenching. Sedition and rebellion is among these a sin as hateful to God as dangerous to the public, yet frequently acted by the usurpers of those dissolute times.