In preaching "trust in God" the moralist anticipates the teaching that man is justified by faith. To confide in God' s will, the secret of all true greatness, is to rise out of all our anxieties and plans and fears when we think of ourselves as the arbiters of our own fortunes, and so "lean to our own understanding."
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 3:5:
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