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Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. This proverb provides a central theme for the book of Proverbs. In order to have true wisdom, one must first submit to the Word of God. Fearing God involves hearing him – it involves listening attentively to…
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Proverbs 1:5-6
Proverbs 1:5-65A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The Scriptures, and especially the proverbs, are not only for the foolish man to become wise, but also for…
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Proverbs 1:2-4
Proverbs 1:2-42To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. This brief passage sets forth the purpose and point of the book of Proverbs. It is also more generally…
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Psalm 50 – John Brown’s Notes
John Brown of Haddington writes regarding Psalm 50 (on which I blogged moments ago): This psalm may be considered as a rebuke to the carnal Jews who rested in, and boasted of their external ceremonies in worship, to the neglect of the weightier matters of the law mercy, judgment, and faith; or as a prediction…
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The Real Turretin on: Imputation
Turrettin (Theol. Elench. Quaest. IX., p. 678) says, “Imputation is either of something foreign to us, or of something properly our own. Sometimes that is imputed to us which is personally ours; in which sense God imputes to sinners their transgressions. Some times that is imputed which is without us, and not performed by ourselves;…
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Matthew Poole on John 3:16
In the following passage, extracted from the abbreviated form of his exhaustive commentaries, the noted commentator Matthew Poole expounds on John 3:16. John 3:16For God the Father, who is the Lord of all, debtor to none, sufficient to himself, so loved the world, that is, Gentiles as well as Jews. There is a great contest…