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21Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21)Here is, 1. The wretched character of wicked people. The temper of their minds is bad. They are proud ; they magnify themselves above others. And yet that is not all: they magnify themselves against God, and set up their wills in competition with and opposition to the will of God, as if their hearts, and tongues, and all, were their own. There is something of pride at the bottom of every wilful si…
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