Tyranny of Self
H. O. Mackay. 1 Samuel 18:9-30 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.… The friendly biographer of the artist Gustave Dore says of him: "He never heard of any other artist's success without brooding over it jealously and unhappily. He was ever on the qui vive of envious excitement, and lived with the constant fear gnawing his vitals that any day someone might come to the front and eclipse him." So the sin of selfishness always in the end punishes the soul that indulges it. It comes like Herodias, a dazzling creature, yet intent on blood. There is no cruelty like the cruelty of sin even to the sinner himself. (H. O. Mackay.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. WEB: Saul eyed David from that day and forward.