16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. …
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16)Here is, 1. The sinner upon his ramble: He wanders out of the way of understanding , and when once he has left that good way he wanders endlessly. The way of religion is the way of understanding ; those that are not truly pious are not truly intelligent; those that wander out of this way break the hedge which God has set, and follow the conduct of the world and the flesh; and they go astray like l…
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