Psalms 14:3

Filthy. — Better, corrupt or putrid. Comp. the Roman satirist’s description of his age: —

“Nothing is left, nothing for future times
To add to the full catalogue of crimes.
The baffled sons must feel the same desires
And act the same mad follies as their sires.
Vice has attained its zenith.” — JUVENAL: Sat. i.

Between Psalms 14:3 the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX., followed by the Vulg. and the English Prayer-book version, and the Arabic, insert from Romans 3:13, the passage beginning, “Their throat is an open sepulchre.” The fact of these verses, which are really a cento from various psalms and Isaiah, following immediately on the quotation of Psalms 14:2, led the copyist to this insertion. (See Note in New Testament Commentary to Romans 3:13.)