CErtain of] Chap. 20. 1.
elders of Israel] Namely, of the heads of the people that were in Babylon.
sat before me] He sheweth the hypocrisie of the idolaters, who will dissemble to hear the Prophets of God, though in their hearts they follow nothing lesse then their admonitions: and also how by one meanes o other, God doth discover them.