18Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? …
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-21)Wisdom here is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge ; it is Christ in the word and Christ in the heart, not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. It is the word of God, the whole compass of divine revelation; it is God the Word, in whom all divine revelation centres; it is the soul formed by the word; it is Christ formed in the soul; it is religion…
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