Note, 1. Pride will have a fall. Those that are of a haughty spirit,
that think of themselves above what is meet, and look with contempt
upon others, that with their pride affront God and disquiet others,
will be brought down, either by repentance or by ruin. It is the honour
of God to humble the proud, Job xl. 11, 12. It is the act of justice
that those who have lifted up themselves should be laid low. Pharaoh,
Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, were instances of this. Men cannot punish
pride, but either admire it or fear it, and therefore God will take the
punishing of it into his own hands. Let him alone to deal with proud
men. 2. Proud men are frequently most proud, and insolent, and haughty,
just before their destruction, so that it is a certain presage that
they are upon the brink of it. When proud men set God's judgments at
defiance, and think themselves at the greatest distance from them, it
is a sign that they are at the door; witness the case of Benhadad and
Herod. While the word was in the king's mouth, Dan. iv. 31. Therefore
let us not fear the pride of others, but greatly fear pride in
ourselves.