Psalm 106:6

Verse 6. -- We have sinned with our fathers. It enhances the sin considerably by adding "with our fathers." He would have seemed to extenuate, not exaggerate, if he had said, We have sinned with other mortals. But by saying, We have sinned with our fathers, he by no means lessens but aggravates their offences, while he thereby extols the goodness of God who blessed not only those who acted sinfully and impiously, but also the children and descendants of the sinful and impious, even those whom he could with the highest justice have cut off as doubly detestable. --Musculus.

Verse 6. -- Sinned; committed iniquity; done wickedly. The Rabbins tell us that there are three kinds and degrees of sin here set down in an ascending scale; against one's self, against one's neighbour, against God; sins of ignorance, sins of conscious deliberation, sins of pride and wickedness. --R. Levi and Genebrardus, in Neale and Littledale.

Verse 6. -- Though the writers of the Scriptures were by divine inspiration infallibly preserved from extravagance, yet they use every appropriate variety of strong and condemnatory language against sin ( Psalms 106:6 ). Surely moral evil cannot be a trifle. Yet it breaks forth on all occasions and on all hands. Sometimes it is in the form of forgetfulness of God ( Psalms 106:13 Psalms 106:21 ), sometimes of rash impetuosity towards evil ( Psalms 106:13 ), sometimes of strong, imperious lusts ( Psalms 106:14 ), sometimes of vile unbelief (Ps 106:12,24), and so of the whole catalogue of offences against God and man. O how vile we are! --William S. Plumer.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 6. In what respects men may be partakers in the sins of their ancestors.