that leap on the threshold] This was indeed a very frequent superstition amongst the heathen, upon many occasions; as 1 Samuel 5:5. 1 Kings 18:26. but because that agreeth not with this place, it seemeth to be a proverbiall kind of speech, to signifie great mens officers, who by an absolute power went into other mens houses, against whom no doores were shut. See Hosea 5:10.