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v. 20. Hast thou found me? To the coveteous man life is a nightmare and God lets him wrestle with it as best he can.-H-Beecher. Coveteousness is ever attended with solicitude and anx iety.-—Ben Franklin. Pleasure won by sin is peace lost.—1Sel. There is never an evil thing we commit which does not rise up to testify against us.—Mac laren. What exile from himself can flee?—-Byron. Conscience is its own read iest accuser,—Chapin. The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul,—Calvin. There is one court whose' findings are incontrovertible, whose sessions are held in the cham bers of our own heart.-^-Ballou. O mine enemy. Sin is blind to- its own true friends' and its real foes.— Sel. The faithful rebuker is the truest friend of the wrong doer.—Maclaren. Thou hast sold thyself. There is a success which is failure. We cannot take some prizes.—Parker. That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard is not for ourselves.—Deluzy. Coveteousness, like a candle ill-made, smothers the splendor of a happy for tune in its own grease.—F. Osborn. The coveteous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth as wealth to possess him.—Bacon. Coveteousness makes both alpha and omego in the devil’s alphabet.— South. A circle can not fill a triangle, neither can the whole world, if it were to be encom passed, the heart of man.—Spenser. To work evil. When coveteousness has once gotten hold of the heart, it cannot discern between right and wrong; it takes evil for good and good for evil. It calls darkness light and light darkness. Beware of the begin ning of coveteousness, for you know not where it will end.-—Mant. Covet eousness teaches men to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice, and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it cannot spend those heaps of treasures which it has snatched.—Jeremy Taylor. If you want
They proclaimed a fast, v. 12. It is a sure sign of mischief when some men become serious. The moment they appear to be religious, the devil is just adding the l a s t COMMENT touch to the build- FROM MANY, ing which he has SOURCES b e e n putting up within their souls. —Parker. v. 13. Witnessed against h i m. Great influence means great mischief when the soul is not in harmony with the spirit of righteousness,^—Peoples’ Bible. Those who have no regard for God are constantly making religion a cloak for their selfish schemes,—Tor- rey. Blaspheme the king. Note that Naboth’s refusal to Ahab was not dis regard for him nor for selfish reasons, but from obedience to God. Cp. v. 3 with Lev. 25:23, Num. 36:78.—Gray. They stoned him. Better be lying dead beneath a heap of stones, like the sturdy Naboth who could say “no” to a king, than be one of his stoners who killed an innocent neighbor to please Jezebel.—Maclaren. v. 15. Arise, take possession. Large fortunes today are often built upon the broken hearts and shortened lives of weaker men and widows and orphans. There is no sin that we need more to be on our guard against than covet eousness.—Torrey. Behind all Ahab’s childishness (v.4) was the fact that he had sold himself to the devil (v.25) and men are doing that very thing today.—Parker. Presumably the prop erty of one who was executed as a crim inal passed to the crown.—Dummelow. v. 16. Rose np to go down. Who ever reaches out to grasp a fancied good by breaking God’s law, may get his good, but he will get more than he expected along with it.—Maclaren. v. 19. Bogs shall lick thy blood. Coveteousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life.-—Thos'. Hughes.
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