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John Gill's Exposition on Job 42:6
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Wherefore I abhor [myself], etc.] Or all my words, as Aben Ezra; all the indecent expressions he had uttered concerning God; he could not bear to think of them; he loathed them, and himself on account of them: sin is abominable in its own nature, and makes men so; it is loathsome to God, and so it is to all good men when they see it in its proper light; am especially when they have a view of the purity and holiness of God, to which that is so very contrary, and also of his grace and goodness in the forgiveness of it; (see <230603>Isaiah 6:3,5) (<261663>Ezekiel 16:63 20:41); and repent in dust and ashes; which was an external ceremony used by mournful and penitent persons; (see <180208>Job 2:8 Jon 3:6); and is expressive of the truth and sincerity of repentance; and never do any more truly mourn for sin and repent of it, are more ashamed of it, or have a more godly sorrow for it, or more ingenuously confess it, and heartily forsake it, than those who with an eye of faith behold God in Christ as a sin forgiving God; or behold their sins through the glass of pardoning grace and mercy; (see <381210> Zechariah 12:10 <420737>Luke 7:37,47 <540113>1 Timothy 1:13).
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