5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity. He is
thunderstruck at the discovery of his inbred sin, and proceeds to set it forth.
This was not intended to justify himself, but it rather meant to complete the
confession. It is as if he said, not only have I sinned this once, but I am in
my very nature a sinner. And in sin did my mother conceive me. He goes
back to the earliest moment of his being, not to traduce his mother, but to
acknowledge the deep tap-roots of his sin. It is a wicked wresting of Scripture
to deny that original sin and natural depravity are here taught. David’s mother
was the Lord’s handmaid, he was born in chaste wedlock, of a good father, and
yet his nature was as fallen as that of any other son of Adam, and there only
needed the occasion for the manifesting of that sad fact. In our shaping we
were put out of shape, and when we were conceived our nature conceived sin.
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