The message of the true proverb has happened to them, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”
Like a dog that returns to its vomit Is a fool who repeats his folly.
“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,
This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.