The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
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Gill's Exposition
The vile person shall be no more called liberal,.... Or "Nabal" (a fool) "shall no more be called Nadib" (e) (a prince); or have this name put upon him, or be advanced to honour and dignity, or be…
Barnes' Notes
The vile person - Hebrew, ‘Fool.’ But the connection requires us to understand this as the opposite of liberal; and it means a person who is close, miserly, narrow-minded, covetous. This person is…
We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. "Blessed art thou, O land! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be." It may be…
Cambridge Bible
True and false nobility shall no longer be confounded because of artificial caste-distinctions.
The vile person or, the fool; see the typical specimen, Nabal by name and by nature, in 1Samuel…
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