About the fourth day of the feast. Therefore there are few to whom the gospel appeals, because the giving of serious attention to godliness is very rare. None boast more confidently that they themselves are the defenders of the law of God than they that break it most impudently. We must judge according to the truth of things, lest men turn us from the truth and carry us away. Many marvel that the endeavours of the enemies of God have no success, but in the meanwhile they do not acknowledge the strength and power of God.
Men are very wise to have checks and balances for their own thoughts.
The truth of Christ does not depend upon the judgment of man. The wicked cannot do what they desire, but what God has appointed. As the kingdom of God increases, so increases the rage of his enemies, till at last they seek in vain for those missing blessings which they despised when they were present. The last day of the feast of tabernacles, that is, the eighth day, was as celebrated a day as the first. So that by the name of Holy Spirit are meant the powers and mighty workings of the Holy Spirit.