1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Wisdom 12:10

*But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.

Exodus 25:30.; Deuteronomy 7:22.

Natural. We are all by nature children of wrath, Ephesians 2:3. (Haydock) --- But the Chanaanites were accursed by Noe[Noah], (Genesis 9:25.) and were brought up in wickedness (Psalm 57:4.) by their parents. (St. Augustine, de Bapt. 2:8.) --- Changed. Because they would not employ well the time allowed them. (Calmet) --- By custom, malice became as it were natural, after nature was corrupted. (Worthington)