If I be wicked, woe to me for all this. Now observe here, 1. The vast length and breadth of this roll intimate what a multitude of curses sinners lie exposed to. God will make their plagues wonderful, if they turn not. The criminals against whom particularly this curse is levelled.
Sacrilege is, without doubt, the worst kind of thievery.
He has appealed to God's judgment, which is always according to truth, for the confirming of a lie, and to that judgment he shall go which he has so impiously affronted. He that pronounces the sentence will take care to see it executed. His giving it commission. It is a righteous curse, for he is a righteous God that warrants it. His giving it the setting on.