OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 58:8

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Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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Verse 8. Lips. They seek my ruin, 2 Ezra 4:2. and so forth—Heard. Thus they deny Providence, Ps. (Heb.) 10:11. Calmet.—This thought and the occasion of in have produced much wickedness. “Whithersoever thou goest, thou art seen by Jesus Christ, who made, redeemed, and died for thee.” Saint Augustine Ser. 161.—A serious consideration of God’s presence is the best preservative. Bert.—The wicked devise all sorts of cruelty, as if there were no God. Worthington.

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