Wisdom having shown where she dwelleth, she showeth likewise where she dwelleth not. . . . He that saith, "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil," is Himself the Lord that hateth evil. And, doubtless, every one should hate that which He hateth, whom all must love. Now, in an evil way, there be some ringleaders, and such are "pride, arrogancy, and the froward mouth," for these draw many other after them. . . . And as for the Eternal Wisdom, how much He hateth them, His little regard of Himself showeth plainly and fully. For it was His hatred of Satan's pride, reigning in wickedness, as well as His love to man captivated by it, that made Him to become man; yea, a worm, and no man, and by His humility to destroy pride, which He so greatly hated.--_Jermin._ It is not only Divine _holiness,_ observe, that "hates evil," it is Divine _wisdom._ This conveys to us the important lesson that the will of God, along with his abhorrence of all that is opposed it, is founded in the _best of reasons._ All that is evil is contrary to His own necessary perfection, and, consequently, to "the eternal fitness of things."--_Wardlaw._ As it is impossible to hate evil without loving good; and as hatred to evil will lead a man to abandon the evil way, and love to goodness will lead him to do what is right in the sight of God, under the influence of that Spirit which has given the hatred to evil, and the love to goodness; this implies the sum and substance of true religion, which is here termed the fear of the Lord.--_Adam Clarke._ God's people partake of the Divine nature, and so have God-like sympathies and antipathies (Rev. ii. 6). They not only leave sin, but loathe it, and are at deadly feud with it. They purge themselves--by this clean fear of God (Psa. xix. 7)--from all pollutions, not of flesh only, worldly lusts, and gross evils, but of spirit also, that lie more up in the heart of the country, as pride, arrogancy, etc.--_Trapp._ _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.--Verses_ 14-16. THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER.