What is the context?
The target is charged with refusing kindness and pursuing poor and brokenhearted people to death. His love of cursing is set against his refusal of blessing.
The prayer asks that the curse envelop him like clothing and penetrate like water or oil. The desired judgment mirrors the harm he has embraced.
The images convey an inescapable reversal. They do not provide a medical account of bodily fluids or a method for producing supernatural harm.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley understands refusing blessing through unwillingness to promote others’ welfare. His physical claims about water and oil damaging the body should be distinguished from the poem’s imagery rather than adopted as established medicine.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.