What has happened to them confirms the truth of the proverb, “A dog returns to its vomit,” and “A scrubbed pig heads right back into the mud.”
Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Yeshua told them this parable, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
“But suppose the contamination returns, breaking out in the house, after he has pulled out the stones and after he has scraped the house, and it has been re-plastered.