If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Iniquity? Punishing me for the sins which seemed to be pardoned. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "If I sin, then thou markest me, and wilt not suffer; (Haydock) or if thou hast not pardoned my iniquity: (15) And "(Calmet)
83. The Lord ‘spareth sin at the hour,’ when the moment that we yield tears, He does away with the guilt of sin. But He doth not ‘let us be clean from our iniquity,’ in that of free will indeed we committed the sin, but sometimes against our will we undergo the remembrance of it with a sense of pleasure; for often that, which has been put away from the sight of the just Judge by tears intervening, recurs to mind, and the conquered habit strives to insinuate itself again for the entertaining of delight, and is renewed again in the former contest with revived assault, that what it once did in the body, it may afterwards go through in the mind by intruding thought; which same that spiritual wrestler knew how to regard with heedful eye, who said, My scars [V. cicatrices] stink, and are corrupt through my foolishness. For what are ‘scars’ but the healings of wounds? And so he who lamented his scars, beheld his pardoned wickednesses return to his remembrance for the entertaining of delig...
