children] Not in age onely, but in wit, skill, cariage, courage, vers. 12. Eccl. 10. 16. such, it seems, were Ahaz, Manasseh, and the successors of Josiah.
babes] Or, childish, babish ones: Or, mockers, insolent ones. Heb. men of illusions, or, insolencies: such as delight in mockage, and insolent usage of others, 1 Samuel 31 4. Chap. 66. 14. Jeremiah 38:19.