Matthew on Proverbs 11:4
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4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger, Psalms 110:11 . It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice. After death the judgment, and that is a day of wrath, Revelation 6:17 . 2. Riches will stand men in no stead that day. They will neither put by the stroke nor ease the pain, much less take out the sting; what profit will this world's birth-rights be of then? In the day of public judgments riches often expose men rather than protect them, Ezekiel 7:19 . 3. It is righteousness only that will deliver from the evil of death. A good conscience will make death easy, and take off the terror of it; it is the privilege of the righteous only not to be hurt of the second death, and so not much hurt by the first. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-5-6" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/mhm— Matthew Henry Complete Commentary (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological