19. Bitter irony. The hypocrite boasts of joy. This then is his
"joy" at the last.
and out of the earth--others immediately, who take the place of the
man thus punished; not godly men
(Mt 3:9).
For the place of the weeds is among stones, where the gardener wishes
no plants. But, ungodly; a fresh crop of weeds always springs up
in the place of those torn up: there is no end of hypocrites on earth
[UMBREIT].
JFB.
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