Their heart is as fat as grease,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded in riches, were glutted with the things of this world; had more than heart could wish, and so became proud and haughty: or their hearts were gross, sottish, senseless, and stupid, as persons fat at heart are; or as creatures over fat, which have little or no feeling: so these had no knowledge of the law of God, no sense of their duty, no remorse of conscience for sin; their hearts were hardened, and they past feeling, and given up to a reprobate mind; see Isa 6:9; The Targum is,"the imagination of their heart is become gross as fat:''the Septuagint is, "curdled like milk"; that is, hardened, as Suidas interprets it;[but] I delight in thy law; after the inward man; as the apostle did, Ro 7:22; as fulfilled in Christ; as in his hands, as King and Lawgiver; as written upon his own heart; and so yielding a ready and cheerful obedience to it; he delighted in reading the law, in meditating on it, and in observing it.
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Psalms 119:70
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by it deterred from his duty: They have forged a lie against me. Thus…Psalms 119:70Psalms 119:70 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeheart is as fat: Psalms 17:10, Psalms 73:7; Isaiah 6:10; Acts 28:27
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