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Psalms 50:8

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I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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Verse 8. Uncertain. Hebrew “in the interior,” I am full of sin, and thou requirest that I should constantly adhere to virtue. See Job 14:1.—To me. This increases my crime, ( Calmet.) as I cannot plead ignorance. Menochius.—Those who have true faith, are more easily converted. But God gives to all some good, which he loves in them, and is ever ready to preserve his gifts, and to save his creatures. Worthington.

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