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John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 11:18
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The wicked worketh a deceitful work, etc.] Such a wicked man as before described; that neither enjoys the good things of life he has, nor suffers others to enjoy them; and all to accumulate riches, which are deceitful and perishing; and who abstains from meats, which God has created for use, under a pretence of religion, and so deceives his own soul; and indeed every sin which a wicked man commits is a deceitful work; it promises him that pleasure, or profit, or liberty, which it does not give him, and in the issue is the ruin of him; and so all false doctrines, propagated by deceitful workers, are deceitful works, by which they deceive the simple, and at last themselves; they “obtain a deceitful reward of [their] work”, as Gussetiusf310 renders it; but to him that soweth righteousness; does acts of beneficence and liberality; (see <470909>2 Corinthians 9:9,10); and all other good works, or works of righteousness, [shall be] a sure reward; according to what a man sows, and the manner in which he sows, so shall he reap, (<470906>2 Corinthians 9:6 <480608>Galatians 6:8); or, “a reward of truth”; instead of being given up to believe a lie, he shall receive the love of the truth, and abide in it, which will bring him to eternal glory and happiness; he being chosen to it through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, (<530210>2 Thessalonians 2:10-13); and, instead of a deceitful reward, shall have a true, real, solid, and substantial one.
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