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Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 58:3

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Psalms58:3

3. The wicked are estranged from the womb , they go astray, as soon they be born , speaking lyes.

Either, 1. Hyperbolically: even from their tender years. Or, 2. Strictly and Properly. So the Sence is. No wonder they Act so unrighteously, for their very Natures and Principles are corrupt, even from their Birth: They are the wicked offspring of sinful Parents. And this Hereditary and Native corruption, though too common to all Men, he particularly ascribes to these Men; Either, because their immediate Parents were such as did not onely Convey a corrupt Nature to them, but greatly improved it by wicked Counsel and Example: Or because they themselves had improved that stock of Original Corruption, and instead of mortifying it, had made it their great Design, and Constant business to gratifie and obey it.

By actual sins, the Fruit of their Original sin.

From their Child-hood, as soon as ever they were capable of the Exercise of Reason, and the Practise of sinning.

f To wit, from God, Eph. 4. 18. and from all Goodness.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters] Heb. speaketh of Lyes.; Go astray from the Belly.

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