3Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. A very strange supposition, Deut. 13:1 , 2 . 1. It is strange that there should arise any among themselves, especially any pretending to vision and prophecy, who should instigate them to go and serve other gods . Was it possible that any who had so much knowledge of the methods of divine revelation as to be able to personate a prophet should yet have so little knowledge of the divine n…
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