“The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.”
The psalmist opens with a statement about the transgression of the wicked in the depths of their heart, indicating that wickedness originates in the internal disposition and fundamental orientation away from God. The phrase 'in the depths of their heart' suggests that the problem is not superficial but rooted in the innermost being. The verse establishes that the wicked lack any fear or reverence of God, indicating a fundamental disorder in their relationship to the divine.
Church Fathers on Psalms 36:1
1. ...“The ungodly has said in himself that he will sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes” Psalm 35:1. Not of one man, but of a race of ungodly men he speaks, who fight against their own selves, by not understanding, that so they may live well; not because they cannot, but because they will not. For it is one thing, when one endeavours to understand some thing, and through infirmity of flesh cannot; as says the Scripture in a certain place, “For the corruptible body…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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