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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 2:9

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.

Ver. 9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness.] Not as cognoscitiva, standing in speculation; but as directiva vitae, a rule of life. Knowledge is either apprehensive only, or affective also. This differs from that, as much as the light of the sun, wherein is the influence of an enlivening power, from the light of torches.

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֗ז תָּ֭בִין צֶ֣דֶק וּ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝ מֵישָׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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