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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 73:8
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They are corrupt, etc.] In themselves, in their principles, and in their practices, being shapen and conceived in sin, and born of the flesh; and are corrupters, or “corrupt” themselves, and their ways, and also others by their corrupt speech, evil communications, and bad examples: or “they consume away”; like smoke, or into it, as (<193720>Psalm 37:20) or as wax melteth at the fire, (<196802>Psalm 68:2 <381412>Zechariah 14:12), where the same word is used as here: or “they cause to consume away” f1024; “they melt or dissolve others”; they consume them, and waste their estates by their oppression and violence; they make their hearts to melt with their threatening and terrifying words; or they make them dissolute in their lives by keeping them company: and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak oppression and revolt, threaten with it, (<235913>Isaiah 59:13), and speak in vindication of it, and in a boasting glorying manner; so Arama; which is speaking wickedly concerning it: they speak loftily: proudly, arrogantly, in a haughty and imperious manner: or “from on high” f1025; as if they were in heaven, and above all creatures, and even God himself; and as if what they said were oracles, and to be received as such, without any scruple and hesitation. Thus Pharaoh, Sennacherib, and Nebuchadnezzar spake, (<020502>Exodus 5:2 <233620>Isaiah 36:20 <270315> Daniel 3:15) and the little horn, or antichrist, (<270720>Daniel 7:20 <530204>2 Thessalonians 2:4 <661306>Revelation 13:6).
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