What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
“If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,