29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,



Ver. 29. With all unrighteousness] The mother of all the ensuing misrule.



Wickedness] The Syrian saith, "bitterness." See Jer_2:19. The word ðïíçñéá may be rendered troublesomeness, as the devil is called ï ðïíçñïò , the troublesome one, the molester of God’s people; restless in himself and disquieting others.



Envy, murder] Three such alliterations are found in this black beadroll. {a} {b} The apostle seems delighted with them, as was likewise the prophet Isaiah. Of which noble two, I may well say as one doth of Demosthenes and Cicero, Demosthenes Ciceroni praeripuit ne esset primus orator, Cicero Demostheni, ne solus.



Malignity] Or, morosity, crossness, ill conditions; or an evil disposition, that taketh everything the worst way; whereas a better disposition would make a better exposition, and take things by the right handle.



Whisperers] These are worse than backbiters, because they work underground, like as the wind that creeps in the chinks and crevices in a wall, or the cracks in a window, prove commonly more dangerous than a storm that meets a man in the face upon the champaign. A vento percolato, et ab inimico reconciliato libera nos.



{a} ðïñíåéá, ðïíçñéá. öèïíïõ, öïíïõ. áóõíåôïõò, áóõíèåôïõò. êáêïçèåéá, êáêéá.



{b} A list of persons to be specially prayed for ŒD