Purity and Impurity of Sentiment
E. Johnson Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame. I. AVERSION FROM ALL UNTRUTH A LEADING CHARACTER OF PURITY. This does not imply that the good man never falls into acts or words which are untrue to his nature. But as a child of God, there is in his spiritual or ideal nature a rooted antipathy to lies, and a deep sympathy with truth in all its forms. 'Tis only truthfulness which can impart fragrance, charm, delight, to character. II. THE CONTRARY DISPOSITION OF THE WICKED IS LOATHSOME AND SHAMEFUL. Antipathy to truth - and, alas! perversion may actually bring men to this - produces upon the pure moral taste an impression akin to that of nausea or deformity upon the physical sensibility. And we blush for it as a common odium and disgrace of human nature. - J. Parallel Verses KJV: A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. WEB: A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.