5. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. Apply this to the body, and it pictures a sad condition of disease; but
read it of the soul, and it is to the life. Conscience lays on blow after blow
till the swelling becomes a wound and suppurates, and the corruption within
grows offensive. What a horrible creature man appears to his own consciousness
when his depravity and vileness are fully opened up by the law of God, applied
by the Holy Spirit! It is true there are diseases which are correctly described
in this verse, when in the worst stage; but we prefer to receive the
expressions as figurative, since the words because of my foolishness
point rather at a moral than a physical malady. Some of us know what it is to
stink in our own nostrils so as to loathe ourselves. Even the most filthy
diseases cannot be so foul as sin. We shudder to think that so much evil should
lie festering deep within our nature.
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