Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Deuteronomy 29:19

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this curse: Deu 29:12; Gen 2:17 that he bless: Deu 17:2; Num 15:30, Num 15:39; Psa 10:4-6, Psa 10:11, Psa 49:18, Psa 94:6, Psa 94:7; Pro 29:1; Jer 5:12, Jer 5:13, Jer 7:3-11, Jer 28:15-17, Jer 44:16, Jer 44:17, Jer 44:27; Eze 13:16, Eze 13:22; Eph 5:6 though I walk: Num 15:30; Ecc 11:9; Rom 1:21; Co2 10:5; Eph 4:17 imagination: or, stubborness, Jer 3:17, Jer 7:24 \*marg. to add: A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses. drunkenness to thirst: Heb. the drunken to the thirsty Deuteronomy 29:20

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