Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxv Pg 5
Rom. i. 32.
For the Scripture saith, “But to the sinner God said, Wherefore dost thou declare my statutes, and take my covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee? When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with149 149 Literally, “didst run with.”
him, and didst make thy portion with adulterers. Thy mouth has abounded with wickedness, and thy tongue contrived150 150 Literally, “didst weave.”
deceit. Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest151 151 Or, “layest a snare for.”
thine own mother’s son. These things thou hast done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest, wicked one, that I should be like to thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set thyself before thee. Consider now these things, ye that forget God, lest He tear you in pieces, like a lion, and there be none to deliver. The sacrifice of praise will glorify Me, and a way is there by which I will show him the salvation of God.”152 152
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (32) - :18,21; 2:1-5,21-23
