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2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
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Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
In your patience possess ye your souls.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Here are two things which will be comforts to us:— I. Consciousness of our integrity. This was David’s rejoicing, that his heart could witness for him that he had walked humbly with his God, notwithstanding the censures he was under and the temptations he was in. 1. He aimed not at a high condition, nor was he desirous of making a figure in the world, but, if God had so ordered, could have been we…
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