this commandment: for if you obey this commandment, you will be able to keep all the
other commandments which I am to give you. Be strong, then, in these commandments,
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and put on power, and let all put on power, as many as wish to walk in them.”190
190 And put … them.That you may live to God, and they who keep these commandments will live to God.—Vat.
[The beauty of this chapter must be felt by all, especially in the eulogy on patience. A pious and learned critic
remarks on the emphasis and frequent recurrence of scriptural exhortations to patience, which he thinks have
been to little enlarged upon in Christian literature.]
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Commandment Fifth. Of Sadness of Heart, and of Patience.