An upright, contented, and benevolent mind, tends to health.
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Proverbs 14:30
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 14:1-35EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 14:28-35Life contrasts I. IN PUBLIC LIFE. 1. Fulness and scantiness of population. (Proverbs 14:28.) The Hebrew had a deep sense of the value of fruitfulness in the wedded life, and of increase in the nation. The majesty of the…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 14:30The foregoing verse showed how much our reputation, this how much our health, depends on the good government of our passions and the preserving of the temper of the mind. 1. A healing spirit, made up of love and meeknes…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 14:30A quiet spirit Translate the first clause of the verse thus: "The life of the body is a quiet spirit." I. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A QUIET SPIRIT. The habit and disposition of quietness need not be accompanied by torpor.…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh. The heart that is healthy, morally and physically, spreads its beneficent influence over the whole body in all its functions and relations; this is expressed by the word for "fles…Joseph S. Exell and contributors