John Trapp on Proverbs 4:22

Verſ. 22. For they are life] See the Note on Chap. 3.22. and on Chap. 3.16.

And health unto all their fleſh] Sin is the cauſe of ſickneſs, 1 Cor. 11.20. Joh. 5.14. Sin no more, le[illegible: 1 letter]t a worſe thing come unto thee. But the joy of the Lord is a mans ſtrength, Neh. 8.10. and ſuch a merry heart doth good, like a medicine, Prov. 17.22. As ſin is an univerſal ſickneſs, Iſa. 1.5, 6. like thoſe diſeaſes wherein Phyſicians ſay, are corruptio totius ſubſtantiae, a corruption of the whole ſubſtance, as the Heretick, &c. So Grace is a Catholicon, a general cure, like the herb Panace, which is ſaid to bee good for all diſeaſes: whence alſo,A [non-Latin text not transcribed] & [non-Latin text not transcribed]. ſaith Pliny, it hath its name.