Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
5. "Who have said, We will magnify our tongue, our lips are our own, who is Lord over us?" (ver. 4). Proud hypocrites are meant, putting confidence in their speech to deceive men, and not submitting themselves to God.
Own. "We have lips "(Symmachus) or eloquence to gain our cause against these miserable exiles. (Calmet)
Lord. Hebrew adon, "master. "We admit of no superior, neither in heaven nor on earth. (Haydock)
Such was the haughtiness of Pharao, Exodus v. 2., and 4 Kings xviii. 19., and Daniel iii. 15. (Calmet)
