3. For I was envious at the foolish. “The foolish” is the generic fide of
all the wicked: they are beyond all others fools, and he must be a fool who
envies fools. Some read it, “the proud”; and indeed many a mind which is out of gear spiritually becomes
infected with that wasting disease. It is a pitiful thing that an heir of
heaven should have to confess I was envious, but worse still that he was
envious at the foolish. Yet this acknowledgment is, we fear, due from
most of us. When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. His eye was fixed
too much on one thing; he saw their present, and forgot their future—saw their
outward display, and overlooked their soul’s discomfort.
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