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27It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs 25:27 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 27)I. Two things we must be graciously dead to:—1. To the pleasures of sense, for it is not good to eat much honey ; though it pleases the taste, and, if eaten with moderation, is very wholesome, yet, if eaten to excess, it becomes nauseous, creates bile, and is the occasion of many diseases. It is true of all the delights of the children of men that they will surfeit, but never satisfy, and they are...
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