In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
4. "The malicious one hath been brought to nought in his sight" (ver. 4). This is perfection, that the malicious one have no force against a man; and that this be "in his sight;" that is, that he know most surely that the malicious is not, save when the mind turns itself away from the eternal and immutable form of her own Creator to the form of the creature, which was made out of nothing. "But those that fear the Lord, He glorifieth:" the Lord Himself, that is. Now "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." As then the things above belong to the perfect, so what he is now going to say belongs to beginners.
Nothing. He despises all wickedness, though done by kings, whose power he considers as the means of destruction, 1 Kings xv. 26., and Luke xxiii. 9. The wicked dares not appear before an upright judge, like David, Psalm c. 2. Hebrew may be "the wicked is despised. "(St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Those who follow the Jews, have "he thinks meanly of himself "which is very good; but the sense of the Vulgate seems more pointed, (Calmet) though the other contains a noble maxim of the gospel. (Berthier)
Protestants, "in whose eyes a vile person is contemned. "The sinner is the only person who is truly vile, in the opinion of the just, who forms not his opinion on outward appearances. (Haydock)
Lord. Glory is the reward of good works. (Worthington)
Neighbour. This sense is conformable to the Hebrew without points, (Geneb.) and more beautiful than that of the Rabbins, "against his own interest "(Junius) "to do evil "(Ainsworth) "friendship "(Symmachus) or "to afflict himself. "(St. Jerome)
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