Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Proverbs 10:16
A warning against the conclusion to seek wealth first of all, which men of lower natures might draw from Proverbs 10:15.
" Quaerenda pecunia primum est;
Virtus post nummos ?"
Horace, Ep. 1. i. 53.
Such an inference is met by the experience, that while wealth gotten by honest industry is not only, like inherited riches a defense, but also a blessing, the seeming profit (rather than "fruit" ) of the wicked tends to further sin I Timothy 6:10, and so to punishment. Compare Romans 6:21.
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