if then I be a father] Luke 6:46.
O priests] Besides the rest of the people he condemneth the Priests chiefly, for they should have reproved others for their hypocrisie, and obstinacie against God, and not have hardened them by their example to greater evils.
Whorein have we despised thy name] He noteth their grosse hypocrisie, which would not see their faults, but impudently cloaked them; and so were blind guides.