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Barnes' Notes on Proverbs 28:14

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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The “fear” here is not so much reverential awe, as anxious, or “nervous” sensitiveness of conscience. To most men this temperament seems that of the self-tormentor. To him who looks deeper it is a condition of blessedness, and the callousness which is opposed to it ends in misery. return to 'Top of Page'
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