Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 25:27
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Proverbs25:27
27 * It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory , is not glory .
To wit, for the health of the Body.
Which words are easily understood both out of the foregoing clause, where the Honey is supposed to be eaten by men, and out of the following words which are evidently meant of them.
Industriously to seek for honour and applause from men.
Is not onely sinful, but shameful also and a sign of a vain and mean spirit. The Negative Particle, not is here understood out of the former part of the Verse, as it is, Psal. 1. 5. & 9. 18.
Marginal references: Vers. 16.
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