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Proverbs 20:15
Proverbs 20:15
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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I. GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD.
1. Of all bodily good. The eye, the ear, with all their wondrous mechanism, with all their rich instrumentality of enjoyment, are from him.
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good elocution to diffuse the knowledge) are to be preferred far before
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