folly] Sinne and folly in the Scripture phrase are names of the same naughtinesse; the sacriledge of Achan, Joshua 7:15. and the rape on the Levites Concubine, Judg. 20. 6. are called folly; and the most subtle act, if it be sinfull, deserves no better a title, for in all sinne there is an aversion, or turning from God, who is the soveraigne good, and the hazarding of the best thing within, viz. our soules, and the best without, the Kingdome of heaven, for it; so that the greatest politicians, if wicked withall, shall have cause to passe the censure of the Apostle upon themselves, that professing themselves wise they became fooles, Romans 1:22. in Israel] In the precedent Chapter, vers. 20. and not many yeares before this, the name of Israel was a personall name of Jacob; now i is more generall, extending to the whole family descended from him: or these words may be the words, not of Jacobs sonnes, but of Moses who writeth this story according to the phrase or forme of speech in his time agreeable to the law, which saith, There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, Deuteronomy 23:17.