And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.
All Commentaries on Psalms 41:6 Go To Psalms 41
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
If he, any one among my enemies. (Haydock)
The Scriptures often pass from the plural to the singular, (Berthier) to comprise every one distinctly. (Haydock)
Yet St. Augustine, read "they came", omitting if, as some of the Septuagint editions do likewise: though inaccurately, according to St. Jerome and Sun. (Calmet)
It occurs in the Roman copy, and Grabe inserts it in a smaller type. The sense is not altered. (Haydock)
The conspirators affected to show David some marks of civility, to obtain their ends. The Jews often strove to entangle Jesus, by their questions, (Matthew xix. 3., and xxii. 17, 24., and John viii. 3.) while Judas continued in his company, to gratify his own avarice, and to betray him. (Calmet)
Such were their vain projects. (Haydock)
Those who came maliciously to hear Christ, blamed him as an enemy to the law, or as one who cast out devils by Beelzebub. (Worthington)
