Ezekiel 12:5

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Ver. 5. Dig through the wall.] Make any shift. Necessitas magnum telum. He that digged Mortimer's hole, as they call it, at Nottingham Castle, earned his liberty dearly. God might have said to the prophet at once, Get thee gone out of thy country - how sad a thing that is Ovid when banished setteth forth in many elegant elegies, sed cuncta per partes digerit - but he must do it piecemeal and by degrees, that it may the more affect them.