...press toward the mark, Heb. vi, 1 ; Phil, iii, 13. Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. [The word in vain refers only to a temptation of David when he " saw the prosperity of the wicked,"]...

...person, as from the beginning, to relate the temptation which he underwent, and the issue of it. " 12. Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world ; they increase in riches." The temptation is now stated in its full force. " These" worthless, ungodly, blasphemous wretches,...

...wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How doth God know ? and is there knowledge in the Most High ? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world, they increase in riches. 13 Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 14 For all the day long...

...despair. He is ready to ask, " How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?" and to say, " Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence." " It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that...

...oppressed heai tof the lonely exile have suggested such thoughts as the prophet uttered, when he exclaimed, "Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world, they increase in riches, they have more than heart can wish : " and, as the well-known words of inspiration recurred to her...

...heart of the lonely exile have suggested such thoughts as the prophet uttered, when he exclaimed, " Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world, they increase in riches, they have more than heart can wish : " and, as the well-known words of inspiration recurred to her...

...in the seventy-third Psalm has recorded his feelings in such circumstances. He was tempted to say, " verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency : " and we can hardly suppose Lazarus a stranger to such feelings towards Dives. A further cause of...

...exclaim with the Psalmist — " Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in this world;" "Verily, / have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency."* He might, I say, be at a loss to answer these dark questions, and to explain such an apparent mystery...

...They are not in trouble as other men (the righteous ;) neither are they plagued like other men, &c. Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world...cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innooency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning, &c. When I thought...

...they plagued like other men. Their eyes stand out with fatness ; they have more than heart could wish. Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world ; they increase in riches,' while the good man is often perplexed and distressed on every side. " Now if there is to be no time...