Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Ver. 20. Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee] Shall tyrants and oppressors (who do exercise regiment without righteousness) entitle thee to their wicked proceedings, and go unpunished? See Isaiah 36:10; Isaiah 37:36; the throne or tribunal is called, The holy place, Ecclesiastes 8:10; woe, then, to those that pollute it!

Which frameth mischief by a law?] As did the primitive persecutors, with their bloody edicts against Christians; and the Popish bishops, of whose laws that of Politian was verified,

Inventum Actiae dicuntur iura Draconis:

Vera est fama nimis, nil nisi virus habent.

Some render it Procter, vel contra legem, beside or against law.

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