in the house] That is, in every house; in this fact of Simeon, and Levi with their partakers, though as from God the Shechemites were justly punished partly for actuall guilt, partly for approbation of the sinne of Shechem, and their profanation of Gods Sacrament to serve their owne turnes, and for a purpose to spoile Gods people of all their goods, vers. 23. and albeit the wrathfull vengeance of Simeon and Levi argued either a great deale of zeale against the sinne, or a great deale of pride against the shame of their sisters rape, yet it was a wicked conspiracie, and execution, as being done without the knowledge or consent of their father, and so beyond the measure of regular justice, both in the number of persons (for all were not in the fault that were in the punishment) and in degree of severitie, being both murder, and rapine, and that at such a time as the Shechemites should rather have beene pitied, and all this brought in with treachery against man, and impietie against God in the abuse of the Sacrament; whereby the Booke of Judith is convicted of grosse errour, and so justly excluded out of the Canon of the Scripture, which approveth the slaughter of the Shechemites by Simeon and Levi, as done by the sword given them by God, and out of a divine zeale, vers. 2. 4. which their father accurseth as proceeding of a wicked, and cruell wrath, Genesis 49:7.