14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-18)Here is a general exhortation to constancy in our Christian course, and to encourage in our Christian warfare. Isa. not our life a warfare? It is so; for we struggle with the common calamities of human life. Isa. not our religion much more a warfare? It is so; for we struggle with the opposition of the powers of darkness, and with many enemies who would keep us from God and heaven. We have enemies…
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