Matthew 23:32

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Ver. 32. Fill ye up then the measure] Ironice dictum. Ironic saying. It gives us to understand that sinners are stinted, and cannot do what mischief they would. If at any time they exceed their commission (as they are apt) and help forward the affliction, as out of their innate malice they will, God will soon grow jealous for Jerusalem, and take them off,Zechariah 1:14,15. When wickedness hath filled her ephah, God will soon transport it into the land of Shinar, Zechariah 5:8,11. When it is once ripe in the field, God will not suffer it to shed, to grow again, but cuts it up by a just and seasonable vengeance.