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<p>Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that <i>they may hear and fear</i>, <a class="bibleref" title="Deut.19.20" href="/passage/?search=Deut.19.20">Deut. 19:20</a>. If the <i>scorner</i> will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being inveterate, yet <i>the simple will beware</i> of venturing upon the sin which exposes men thus. If it cure not the infected, it may prevent the spreading of the infection. 2. The reproof of wise men will be a means of good to themselves. They need not be smitten; a word to the wise is enough. Do but <i>reprove one that has understanding and he will</i> so far understand himself and his own interest that he will <i>understand knowledge</i> by it, and not miss it again through ignorance and inadvertency when once he has been told of it; so kindly does he take reproof and so wisely improve it.</p>
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