[65] Numbers, Chap. xii. Verse 14.
[66] Kings, Book ii. (al. iv.) Chap. v. Verse 27.
[67] The same, Chap. xv. Verse 5.
[68] Acts, Chap. v.
[69] The same, Chap. xiii. Verse 11.
CHAPTER IV.
The disease of king Jehoram.
Of king Jehoram it is related, that, “for his wicked life, the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease, so that he voided his intestines daily for the space of two years, and then died of the violence of the[70] distemper.” Two impious kings are recorded to have had the same end, Antiochus Epiphanes, and Agrippa; of whom it was said: Εἰς τἱ τὰ σπλάγχνα τοις ȣ σπλαγχνιζομένοις.[71]
Of what avail are bowels to those
who have no bowels?