are estranged From God and His laws. Cp. Ephesians 4:18, "alienated from the life of God": Colossians 1:21, "alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works," where St Paul uses the word (ἀπῃλλοτριωμένοι) employed by the LXX here.

"The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth" (Genesis 8:21); but these men have shewn a more than ordinary aptitude for wickedness. It has become to them a second nature.

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