The proud and arrogant man—'Mocker' is his name; he behaves with overweening pride—a characterization of the mocker as fundamentally proud, identifying pride as the essence of mockery and establishing that mockery flows from hubris. The verse names arrogance itself as the mocker's identity; his pride is not incidental but defining. The theological significance involves the principle that mockery is the linguistic expression of pride.

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