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<p>The <i>pleasant words</i> here commended must be those which <i>the heart of the wise teaches, and adds learning to</i> (<a class="bibleref" title="Prov.16.23" href="/passage/?search=Prov.16.23">Prov. 16:23</a>), words of seasonable advice, instruction, and comfort, words taken from God’s word, for that is it which Solomon had learned from his father to account <i>sweeter than honey and the honey-comb</i>, <a class="bibleref" title="Ps.19.10" href="/passage/?search=Ps.19.10">Ps. 19:10</a>. These words, to those that know how to relish them, 1. Are pleasant. They are like the <i>honey-comb, sweet to the soul</i>, which tastes in them that <i>the Lord is gracious</i>; nothing more grateful and agreeable to the new man than the word of God, and those words which are borrowed from it, <a class="bibleref" title="Ps.119.103" href="/passage/?search=Ps.119.103">Ps. 119:103</a>. 2. They are wholesome. Many things are pleasant that are not profitable, but these <i>pleasant words are health to the bones</i>, to the inward man, as well as <i>sweet to the soul</i>. They make <i>the bones</i>, which sin has broken and put out of joint, <i>to rejoice</i>. The bones are the strength of the body; and the good word of God is a means of spiritual strength, curing the diseases that weaken us.</p>
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