Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart: 1. The duty of parents is clear, and their encouragements are great. Watch the young. Stand beside that soft, receptive tablet. Keep trespassers away. Insert many truths. Busily fill the space with good, and that too in attractive forms. This is the work laid to your hand. 2. Afflictive providences generally have a bearing on this printing process. God sends what will break the heart or melt it. The heart, in contact with a busy world, was rubbed smooth and slippery. The type, when it touched, glided off the surface, and left no mark behind. This bruising and breaking opened the crust, and let the lesson in. (W. Arnot, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: |
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