John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 52:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou lovest evil more than good, etc.] Indeed not good at all; such comparatives being strong negatives; (see <19B808>Psalm 118:8,9); a wicked man loves evil, and nothing else; his carnal mind being enmity to all that is good [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness; as appears by his affirming that Ahimelech inquired of the Lord for David, when he did not, (<092210>1 Samuel 22:10,15); and by suffering some things to pass for truths which were falsehoods, when it lay in his power to have disproved them: and such a lover of lies is antichrist; (see <540402>1 Timothy 4:2 <530211>2 Thessalonians 2:11). Selah; on this word, (see Gill on “<190302>Psalm 3:2”). The Targum renders the word “Selah” here “for ever”, as in (<195205>Psalm 52:5).

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