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Proverbs 11:5 - Exposition

The perfect ; the upright and honest. Vulgate, "simple;" Septuagint, "blameless." Shall direct —make straight or smooth— his way ( Proverbs 3:6 ). The good man, not blinded by passion, follows a safe and direct path of life; but the wicked, led by his own evil propensious, and losing the light of conscience ( John 11:10 ), stumbles and fails. Septuagint, "Righteousness cutteth straight ( ὀρθοτομεῖ ) blameless paths, but ungodliness walketh in iniquity." ὀρθοτομέω occurs in Proverbs 3:6 , and nowhere else in the Septuagiut. St. Paul adopts the word in 2 Timothy 2:15 .

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Proverbs 11:5 - Exposition

Proverbs 11:5 - Exposition

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