Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.… It is a great aggravation of the wickedness of any family or people that their ancestors were famed for virtue and probity; and commonly those that thus degenerate prove the most wicked of all other. "Corruptio optimi est pessima" — that which was originally the best becomes, when corrupted, the worst (Luke 11:26; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Jeremiah 22:15-17). ( M. Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. |
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