Verse 15. — 'The dwellers in my house and my maidservants have accounted me as a stranger.' 48. By the priests and Levites Christ was accounted a stranger. — The dwellers in the house of God were the priests, whose origin, appointed to the service of God, was already held in that condition through their office. And the maidservants are not without reason understood as the souls of the Levites, serving more intimately at the secret things of the tabernacle, as at the inner parts of the chamber. Let Him say, then, of the priests serving with sedulous care, let Him say of the Levites attending upon the inner parts of the house of God: 'The dwellers in my house and my maidservants have accounted me as a stranger,' because they were unwilling to know and to venerate the incarnate Lord, whom they had long ago foretold through the words of the law.