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Sin as a Garment
Commentators explain that the imagery of clothing, water, and oil illustrates how a life of "cursing" is not just an external action. It becomes an identity one "wears" like a garment and a poison that saturates a person's innermost being, like water in the bowels and oil in the bones, consuming the individual.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 109:18
18th Century
Theologian
As he clothed himself with cursing, as with a garment - Moral qualities are often compared with clothing - as that in which we “app…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 109:17–18
19th Century
Bishop
Let. — The optatives in English are incorrect. These verses express facts, and the imprecation follows in Psalm 109:19. Render as …
John Gill
On Psalms 109:18
17th Century
Pastor
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment ,
&c.] He was full of it; his mouth was full of cursing …
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Matthew Henry
On Psalms 109:6–20
17th Century
Minister
The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of His enemies to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even …