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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Daniel 4:22

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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It is thou--He speaks pointedly, and without circumlocution (Sa2 12:7). While pitying the king, he uncompromisingly pronounces his sentence of punishment. Let ministers steer the mean between, on the one hand, fulminations against sinners under the pretext of zeal, without any symptom of compassion; and, on the other, flattery of sinners under the pretext of moderation. to the end of the earth-- (Jer 27:6-8). To the Caspian, Euxine, and Atlantic seas.
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