Psalms 7:15

He hath made. — Better, he digged a pit, and hollowed it out. Milton: “He digged a pit, and delved it deep.”

(15) Pate. — A word retained from Coverdale’s translation, and common in the Elizabethan age. In Shakespeare it is frequent —

“My invention

Comes from my pate,
As bird-lime does from frieze.”

For the moral, comp. 1 Samuel 25:29.

Psalms 7:15 are quoted by Eusebius of the overthrow of Maxentius by Constantine, with special reference to the fact that in preparing a bridge of boats he had prepared the means for his own destruction.