Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?.... In Ps 14:4, it is, "have all the workers", &c. There are none of them but what have, unless given up to judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, to believe a lie, as antichrist and his followers, 2Th 2:10;See Gill on "Ps 14:4";who eat up my people, [as] they eat bread; and drink their blood, and are drunken with it, Re 17:6;they have not called upon God; but upon their idols, upon the Virgin Mary, and saints departed.
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Psalms 53:4
Psalms 53:4
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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