...guide me safe to heaven and thec. JANUARY 10. Wisdom is the principle thing ; therefore get wisdom. — Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. THE objects with which men in the different professions and states of life are conversant, being very...

...actions lest you err." And he might have added, that probably the Apostle had also in view Prov. 4, 27. " Turn not to the right hand, nor to the left : remove thy feet from evil." The sense, then, after withdrawing the metaphor, is this : " Take the straight road...

...unto me. Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from and live. evil. 5 Get wisdom, get understandCHAP. V. ing : forget it not; neither decline Thf Folly,...

...ordinary instruction pointeth out to us : so that usually that direction of Solomon is sufficient, ' let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eye-lids look straight before thee. — Turn not to the right hand, nor to the left.' The ways of iniquity and vanity, (if we may call...

...ordinary instruction pointeth out to us : so that usually that direction of 'Solomon is sufficient, ' let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eye-lids look straight before thee. — Turn not to the right hand, nor to the left.' way,) ill designs and bad means of executing designs,...

...whatsoever noise we make, we really do not. Ponder the path of thy feet, says Solomon ; and before that, Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thce. And further, Put away a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. But, first of all,...

...ways, and turn unto the Lord;' and, ' I said, I will take heed to my ways,' saith the psalmist; and, 'Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established,' is the wise man's advice. Search our ways, and ponder our paths ; this implies that we first do examine...

...Lord thy God, thou shalt utterly detest, and thou shalt utterly abhor it ; for it is a cursed thing. 4 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids...thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn .'H 1 Rom. xii. 9. 2 Cor. vii. 1. z James i. 21. 27. 3 Dei vii. 25, 26. * Prov. iv. 35. 26, 27. not...

...life shall lose it ; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Mat. xvi. 24, 25. g white as snow ; so as no fuller on earth can white...appeared, &c.] And there appeared unto them Elias w Pr. iv. 26, 27. " 1" (" wisdom") lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment...

...prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself," says the Scripture. And the same authority adds, " Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee." With regard then to the future, in every period, relation; and condition of life, some things may be...