So for men ... - This is a difficult sentence, whose text is probably defective. These words are not in the original.

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So for men to search their own glory is not glory. —The sense of this passage is very doubtful. It may mean, “But to search into difficult…

[It is] not good to eat much honey
That is too much otherwise it is good to eat, (Proverbs 24:13) ; but …

We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of people.