The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 38:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

By these things; i.e. "the things which thou speakest and doest" (Isaiah 38:15). Man does not "live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord" (Deuteronomy 8:3). And in all these things.

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