Psalm 73:20
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Verse 20. As a dream when one awaketh. The conception is rather subtle, but seems to have been shrewdly penetrated by Shakespeare, who makes the Plantagenet prince (affecting, perhaps, the airs of a ruler in God's stead) say to his discarded favourite --
For as it is the inertness of the sleeper's will and intellect that gives reality to the shapes and figments, the very sentiments and purposes that throng his mind; so it seems, as it were, to be the negligence and oversight of the Moral Ruler that makes to prosper the wicked or inane life and influence. So Paul says, in reference to the polytheism of the ancient world: "and the times of this ignorance God winked at." Acts 17:30 . C. B. Cayley, in "The Psalms in Metre." 1860.
HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS
Verse 18-20. The end of the wicked is,
Verse 20. The contemptible object: -- a self righteous, or boastful, or persecuting, or cavilling, or wealthy sinner when his soul is called before God.