18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-20)Solomon had pressed us earnestly to seek diligently for wisdom (Prov. 2:1), and had assured us that we should succeed in our sincere and constant pursuits. But the question is, What shall we get by it when we have found it? Prospect of advantage is the spring and spur of industry; he therefore shows us how much it will be to our profit, laying this down for an unquestionable truth, Happy is the ma…
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