Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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Interpretation
In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light." The truth was not to their taste.