a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, Sermons
I. WHAT IS AN ABOMINATION? The word (as a verb) is of Roman or pagan origin, and denoted the feeling of abhorrence for what was ill-omened. In the moral sphere all evil conduct is like a bad omen, exciting dread and aversion, because boding calamity. In the direct language of the Bible, referring all things immediately to God, abominations are defined as "things that Jehovah hates, and that are an aversion to his soul" (ver. 16). II. AS ENUMERATION OF THESE DIVINE AVERSIONS. The particular number is explained by the parallelism of Oriental poetry generally. It has no direct religious significance. 1. Proud eyes. Literally, lofty eyes. The grande supercilium, or haughty brow, of the Romans. The sensuous expression contains and implies in every case the inner mood. This Divine aversion for pride is deeply marked in the Bible and in ancient thought generally. Pride is an excess - the excess of a virtue of due self-valuation. Therefore it is a disturbing element in the moral world, or God's order. It tends to disjoint the social system. 2. A lying tongue. The liar is thus a solvent of society. It must break up were lying to become universal, and must decay so far as the vice of individuals becomes the custom of the multitude. 3. Hands of violence and injustice. The tyrant is a usurper of God's authority. He "plays such tricks... as angels weep at." The judicial murderer sets at naught the justice both of heaven and earth, the rights of God and of men. 4. The malicious, scheming heart. (See on ver. 14.) That quick "forge and working shop of thought" (Shakespeare) that we call the imagination may become a very devil's smithy, a manufactory of the newest implements of mischief, from the patterns of hell. 5. Feet that speed to mischief. All couriers of ill news, eager retailers of slander, all who cannot bear to be forestalled in the hurtful word, who are ambitious of the first deadly blow. 6. The "breather of lies. (Ver. 19.) The false witness, the lying informer; all who trade in falsehood, and breathe it as their atmosphere. 7. The mischief maker. The instigator of quarrels between brethren (see on ver. 14). All who partake of the leavened bread of malice, rather than of the pure, unfermented, and incorruptible bread of sincerity and truth. 1. Our aversions should be God's aversions. 2. The reasoning antipathy is the counterpart of improper sympathy. 3. Our love and our hate are liable to aberration if not governed by reason and religion. 4. Instinctive antipathy means only that we have found in another something that is opposed to our personal sense of well being; conscientious antipathy, that we have found that which is opposed to the order of God's world. - J.
These six things doth the Lord hate. A catalogue of evils specially odious to the Infinite One.I. HAUGHTY BEARING. "A proud look." Pride is frequently represented in the Bible as an offence to the Holy God. Haughtiness is an abomination, because it implies — 1. Self-ignorance. 2. Unkindness. 3. Irreverence. II. VERBAL FALSEHOOD. "A lying tongue." 1. Falsehood always implies a wrong heart. A pure heart supplies no motive for falsehood. Vanity, avarice, ambition, cowardice are the parents and patrons of lies. 2. Falsehood always has a bad social tendency. It disappoints expectations, shakes confidence, loosens the very foundations of social order. III. HEARTLESS CRUELTY. "Hands that shed innocent blood." Cruelty implies — 1. An utter lack of sympathy with God's creatures. 2. An utter lack of sympathy with God's mind. He who inflicts pain is out of sympathy both with the universe and with his Maker. IV. VICIOUS SCHEMING. "A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations." There are some hearts so bad that they are ever inventing some evil thing. Illustrate by antediluvian man. V. MISCHIEVOUS EAGERNESS. "Feet swift in running to mischief." They not only do mischief, but they do it eagerly, with ready vigilance; they have a greed for it. VI. SOCIAL SLANDER. The slanderer is amongst the greatest of social curses. He robs his fellow-creature of his greatest treasure—his own reputation, and the loving confidence of his friends. VII. DISTURBING STRIFE. "And he that soweth discord among brethren." He who by tale-bearing, ill-natured stories, and wicked inventions produces the disruptions of friendship, is abhorrent to that God who desires His creatures to live in love and unity. This subject serves to show three things — 1. The moral hideousness of the world. These seven evils everywhere abound. 2. The immaculate purity of God. He hates these things. Therefore they are foreign to himself. 3. The true mission of the godly—to endeavour to rid the world of the evils offensive to Heaven. (D. Thomas, D. D.) People SolomonPlaces JerusalemTopics Designs, Devises, Deviseth, Devising, Evil, Full, Haste, Hasting, Heart, Imaginations, Mischief, Plans, Purposes, Quick, Rapidly, Run, Running, Rush, Schemes, Sin, Swift, Thoughts, Vanity, WickedOutline 1. against indebtedness6. idleness 12. and mischievousness 16. seven things detestable to God 20. the blessings of obedience 25. the mischief of unfaithfulness Dictionary of Bible Themes Proverbs 6:18 5016 heart, fallen and redeemed 5925 rashness 1656 numbers, combinations Library The Talking BookA Sermon (No. 1017) Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, October 22nd, 1871 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, by C. H. Spurgeon. "When thou awakest, it shall talk with thee."--Proverbs 6:22. It is a very happy circumstance when the commandment of our father and the law of our mother are also the commandment of God and the law of the Lord. Happy are they who have a double force to draw them to the right--the bonds of nature, and the cords of grace. They sin with a vengeance who sin both against … C.H. Spurgeon—Sermons on Proverbs An Appeal to Children of Godly Parents The Talking Book How Sowers of Strifes and Peacemakers are to be Admonished. A Jealous God How Subjects and Prelates are to be Admonished. The Preface to the Commandments "Boast not Thyself of to Morrow, for Thou Knowest not what a Day May Bring Forth. " The Heavenly Footman; Or, a Description of the Man that Gets to Heaven: In Death and after Death "And Watch unto Prayer. " Proverbs Links Proverbs 6:18 NIVProverbs 6:18 NLT Proverbs 6:18 ESV Proverbs 6:18 NASB Proverbs 6:18 KJV Proverbs 6:18 Bible Apps Proverbs 6:18 Parallel Proverbs 6:18 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 6:18 Chinese Bible Proverbs 6:18 French Bible Proverbs 6:18 German Bible Proverbs 6:18 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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