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8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 10:8

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 8)

Here is, 1. The honour and happiness of the obedient. They will receive commandments ; they will take it as a privilege, and really an ease to them, to be under government, which saves them the labour of deliberating and choosing for themselves; and they will take it as a favour to be told their duty and admonished concerning it. And this is their wisdom; those are wise in heart who are tractable,...

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