35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-37)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s glorious conquest of Satan, in the gracious cure of one who, by the divine permission, was under his power, and in his possession, Matt. 12:22. Here observe, 1. The man’s case was very sad; he was possessed with a devil . More cases of this kind occurred in Christ’s time than usual, that Christ’s power might be the more magnified, and his purpose the more manif…
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