Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. I. A JUST CONCEPTION OF THE NATURE AND SITUATION OF MAN. With a body compounded from the earth, man became a living soul. Between those very different substances, matter and spirit, the union is most perfect. The situation of man agrees with his nature. By his intellectual powers he asserts his relation to the world of mind and spirit; but his material part connects him with a world which, abounding with evils, manifestly appears to be the place of preparation for riper and ascending existence. With this nature, and in this situation, from whence can man derive the strongest promise of successful toil? A man may follow happiness by the path of power; by the pursuit of wealth; by becoming a votary of pleasure. But the ways of unrighteousness never can be the ways of pleasantness, nor its paths peace. II. OF RELIGION, AS SHE STANDS OPPOSED TO HER RIVALS, THE MOST OBVIOUS AND DISCRIMINATING ADVANTAGES ARE THESE. 1. Her impartiality and easiness of access. 2. The comfort and certainty which attend her in possession. 3. The beneficial consequences of the pursuit which she directs. 4. The supreme beauty and importance of the objects to which she looks. (C. Symmons, B.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.WEB: Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. |
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