24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: …
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; …
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)God has spoken once to sinners by their own consciences, to keep them from the paths of the destroyer, but they perceive it not; they are not aware that the checks their own hearts give them in a sinful way are from God, but they are imputed to melancholy or the preciseness of their education; and therefore God speaks twice; he speaks a second time, and tries another way to convince and reclaim si…
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