Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 22:4

4 By humility, and the fear of the LORD , are riches, and honour, and life.

Or, because of humility: or, as many others render it, the reward of humility, that reward which God hath graciously promised, and will give to Humility; which is a grace of great price in Gods Eyes. See Isa. 57. 15. Iam. 4. 6.

By which he distinguisheth true and Christian Humility from counterfeit and moral humility, because that ariseth from a deep sense of Gods greatness, and purity, and perfection, compared with our own meanness, and filthiness, and manifold imperfections, whereas this is quit[illegible: 1+ letters] of another nature, and from other grounds.

The comforts of this life, and the happiness of the next, both which are promised to Godliness, 1 Tim. 4. 8.

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