Jeremiah 32:15

"It is not the only time in the history of States and Churches that he who has been denounced as a deserter and traitor [see note on the tenth year of Zedekiah, Jeremiah 32:1] becomes in the last extremity the best comforter and counsellor. Demosthenes, who had warned his fellow countrymen in his earlier days against their excessive confidence, in his later days was the only man who could reassure their excessive despondency. Stanley's J. Ch. II. 465.

For an illustration of the above transaction from Roman history see Intr. p. xviii.