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x.xxiv.iii-p56.6

x.xxiv.iii-p56.664 words

19. correct … reprove—rather, in the severer sense, "chastise … punish" [Maurer].

backslidings—"apostasies"; plural, to express the number and variety of their defections. The very confederacies they entered into were the occasion of their overthrow (Pr 1:31; Isa 3:9; Ho 5:5).

know … seeimperative for futures: Thou shalt know and see to thy cost.

my fear—rather, "the fear of Me."