but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
Or it may be, “a royal house,” (not a palace, or court, for the king’s palace was at Samaria, but) “a royal temple,” the state-Church. So the Arians betrayed their worldliness by dating one of their Creeds from the Roman Consuls of the year, its month and day” , thereby to show all thinking people, that their faith dates, not of old but now.” Their faith was of yesterday. “They are accustomed to say,” says Jerome, “the Emperor communicates with us, and, if anyone resists them, immediately they calumniate. ‘Actest thou against the Emperor? Despisest thou the Emperor’s mandate?’ And yet we may think, that many Christian kings who have persecuted the Church of God, and essayed to establish the Arian impiety in the whole world, surpass in guilt Jeroboam king of Israel. He despised the message of a false priest, nor would he make any answer to his suggestions. But these, with their many Amaziahpriests, have slain Amos the prophet and the priest of the Lord by hunger and penury, dungeons and exile.”