a sword] The Apostle chargeth this Prophet with madnesse, 2 Peter 2:16. And it is plaine his present anger was a fit of madnesse; for else the strangenesse of the speech, being no lesse then miraculous, might have affected him with feare, and have made him as patient as his beast; but his fury was his frenzy, and in his fit he cals for a sword to be put into the hands of a mad man, to kill his Asse for saving his life from the sword of the Angel.