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Proverbs 29:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 29:15-17

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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 29:1-27EXPOSITION This chapter reinforces many precept given previously.Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 29:12-17Government in truth and equity I. THERE MUST BE THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE. (Proverbs 29:12.) Especially in regard to truthfulness. Nothing is more easily caught than an example of untruthfulness, evasion, hypocrisy. Servants…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 29:15Parents must consider the benefit of due correction, and the mischief of undue indulgence.Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 29:15Parents, in educating their children, must consider, 1. The benefit of due correction. They must not only tell their children what is good and evil, but they must chide them, and correct them too, if need be, when they…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom to the young. The former denotes bodily correction, what we call corporal punishment; the latter, discipline in words, rebuke administered when any moral fault is noticed. The idea here e…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 29:16Let not the righteous have their faith and hope shocked by the increase of sin and sinners, but let them wait with patience.Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 29:16Note, 1. The more sinners there are the more sin there is: When the wicked, being countenanced by authority, grow numerous, and walk on every side, no marvel if transgression increases, as a plague in the country is sai…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 29:16When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth. The verb rabah is used in both parts of the sentence, and should have been so translated, When the wicked increase, transgression increaseth. Septuagint, "When t…Joseph S. Exell and contributors