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Proverbs 10:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 10:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Treasures of wickedness; treasures acquired by wrong doing (). Profit nothing "in the day of calamity" (; comp. ). The LXX. renders, "Treasures will not profit the wicked;" so Aquila.

"For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?" (). Righteousness (); not simply justice and moral goodness, but more especially liberality, benevolence.

So in the Revised Version (in accordance with the best manuscripts) reads, "Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them," Christ proceeding to specify three outward acts as coming under this term, viz.

almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. In some analogous passages the LXX. renders the word by ἐλεημοσύντ, e.g. ; ; Tobit 12:9. Delivereth from death, shows that a man's heart is right towards God.

and calls down special grace. Such a man lays up in store for himself a good foundation, that he may attain eternal life (; see on ).

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