Verse 3. Why are we counted as beasts of burden, and become vile before you? 3. The suspicions and insults of heretics against the Church. — It is proper to the human mind to suspect that the very thing is being done to it which it does itself. For those who are accustomed to despise the ways of good men imagine that they themselves are despised. And because, in matters that can be grasped by reason, the Church shows against the heretics that what they assert is not reasonable, they suspect that they are esteemed by her judgment as though they were beasts of burden. From this suspicion of being despised they leap at once into disdain, and are stirred up to insults against that same Church. Whence it is added: