“For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.”
The psalmist describes how the wicked flatter themselves in their eyes, unable to recognize their own guilt or abhor their wickedness. The phrase 'flatter themselves in their eyes' suggests self-deception and the refusal to see reality clearly. The verse portrays the wicked as trapped in delusion, incapable of perceiving their own moral condition. This diagnosis establishes that wickedness involves not merely external transgression but internal blindness to one's own guilt.
Church Fathers on Psalms 36:2
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…
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