The sonnes of Jacob] In the twenty fifth verse the sonnes of Jacob are set downe by their number, two, and by their names, Simeon and Levi; here the sonnes of Jacob without distinction of names, o limitation of number are mentioned: and indeed Dinah had foure more brethren, besides these two, both by the fathers and mothers side, who might be zealous to revenge the wrong as well as Simeon and Levi, though these two in degree of rage and resolution might be leaders to the rest: and because the execution of the slaughter seemes too much for two, it may be probable that others besides those that were named, vers. 25. were drawne into the same bloody combination; and it may be they are here named the sonnes of Jacob for aggravation of their guilt, in that having so good a father as Jacob, they were authours and actors of so great a crime, which that good man so much detested, veas. 30. of this Chapter, and Chap. 49. 5, 6, 7. As then as a good sonne shall not beare the iniquitie of a wicked father, Ezek. 18. so a good father should not beare the infamie of a wicked sonne, or sonnes. came upon the slain] Either to take from them their apparel and other appurtenances worth the taking away, and to spoile them generally of their goods; or to execute the remainder of their rage, which would not be satisfied with death onely; such was that of the enemies of Cicero, (towards his dead body) when then cut off his head and hands, set them upon the pulpit of Orations, and Fulvia not content with the crueltie of men took his head into her lappe, spit on his face, and pricked his tongue with pinnes, as in revenge upon the tongue that had uttered and the hand that had written those eloquent and vehement Invctives called Philippicks against Antonius. See Plut. life of Cicero, pag. 881, 882. &Stat. in Flor. 50: 4. cap. 5. The like barbarous inhumanity is recorded of the Antichristian, as well as of the heathen Romanes, as that which was practised upon the body of Pope Formosus by Pope Stephen his successour, who tooke him out of his grave, arraied him in his pontificall habit, cut off three of his fingers, and cast him into the River Tyber. Luit-Prand. hist. lib. 1. cap. 8. And upon the dead body of Zuinglius, Sleydan Com. lib. 8. fol. 123.