20To 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. …
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: …
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)In these verses we have, I. The unspeakable privilege which the people of God enjoy in having the oracles of God consigned over to them, and being entrusted with the sacred writings. That they may sanctify the Lord of hosts, may make him their fear and find him their sanctuary, bind up the testimony , Isa. 8:16. Note, It is a great instance of God’s care of his church and love to it that he has lo…
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