2 lines
1.3 KiB
HTML
2 lines
1.3 KiB
HTML
<p>See here, 1. A proud fool exposing himself. Where there is pride in the heart, and no wisdom in the head to suppress it, it commonly shows itself in the words: <i>In the mouth there is pride</i>, proud boasting, proud censuring, proud scorning, proud commanding and giving law; this is the <i>rod</i>, or branch, <i>of pride</i>; the word is used only here and <a class="bibleref" title="Isa.11.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.11.1">Isa. 11:1</a>. It grows from that root of bitterness which is in the heart; it is a rod from that stem. The root must be plucked up, or we cannot conquer this branch, or it is meant of a smiting beating rod, a <i>rod of pride</i> which strikes others. The proud man with his tongue lays about him and deals blows at pleasure, but it will in the end be a rod to himself; the proud man shall come under an ignominious correction by the words of his own mouth, not cut as a soldier, but caned as a servant; and herein he will be beaten with his own rod, <a class="bibleref" title="Ps.64.8" href="/passage/?search=Ps.64.8">Ps. 64:8</a>. 2. A humble wise man saving himself and consulting his own good: <i>The lips of the wise shall preserve them</i> from doing that mischief to others which proud men do with their tongues, and from bringing that mischief on themselves which haughty scorners are often involved in.</p>
|