Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 120:4
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Psalms120:4
1. The tongue is sharper than an arrow.
(a) It is shot in private.
(b) It is tipped with poison.
(c) It is polished with seeming kindness.
(d) It is aimed at the most tender part.
2. The tongue is more destructive than fire. Its scandals spread with greater rapidity. They consume that which other fires cannot touch, and they are less easily quenched. "The tongue", says an Apostle, "is a fire...and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell". A fiery dart of the wicked one. —G.R.
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