shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed V. 11. if they be ashamed shew them the form of the house] The house being an embleme and resemblance of the Church of the Gentiles under the Gospel, might shame the Jews to looke upon it, by considering that they had become so abominable, that the Lord had refused them for his Church, and had chosen the Heathen: but if they should be ashamed with an holy shame, and sorrow with an holy sorrow, that they had been thus offensive, then acquaint them with the forme, Laws and Ordinances of the house, for they also shall have their interest in it, as it fell out and was with the many thousand Jews converted in the time of our Saviour and his Apostles, and as it shall be with them at their conversion neere the end of the world. pattern] Or, summe or number.