Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 51:5

5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity : and in sin did my mother conceive me .

This Verse is both by Iewish and Christian, by Antient and Latter, Interpreters, generally and most truly understood of Original sin: Which he here mentions, as an Aggravation of his Crime: and the Sence of the place is this, Nor is this the onely sin which I have Reason to acknowledge and bewail before thee; for this filthy stream leads me to a corrupt Fountain: and upon a serious Review of my Heart, and Life I find, that I am guilty of innumerable other sins, and that this Ha[illegible: 1+ letters] nous Crime, though drawn forth by external Temptations, yet was indeed the proper Fruit of my own filthy and vile Nature, which, without the restraints of thy Providence or Grace, ever was, and still is like to be, inclinable and ready to commit these and ten Thousand other sins, as Occasion offers it self. For which Contrariety of my very Nature to thine, thou mayst justly loath and Condemn me; and for which I humbly beg thy Pardon and Grace.

Heb. Warm, o[illegible: 1+ letters] Cheri[illegible: 1+ letters]h me, in the Womb before I was shapen, or formed there.

Marginal references: Heb. Warm me.