14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge , by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his heart to them, to delight in them, and bow his will to the aut…
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