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18The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Proverbs 14:18

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 18)

Note, 1. Sin is the shame of sinners: The simple , who love simplicity, get nothing by it; they inherit folly . They have it by inheritance , so some. This corruption of nature is derived from our first parents, and all the calamities that attend it we have by kind; it was the inheritance they transmitted to their degenerate race, an hereditary disease. They are as fond of it as a man of his inher...

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