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lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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The Danger of Abundance
Commentators unanimously agree that prosperity, while a blessing from God, carries a significant spiritual danger. The comfort of being "full" and living in "goodly houses" can lead to a heart being "lifted up" in pride, causing people to forget God as the ultimate source of their success.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
You have built goodly houses. —One of the conditions prescribed by Jonadab the son of Rechab to his family was, “All your days…
Baptist
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy si…
16th Century
Protestant
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full. He more fully explains what we have already observed, namely, that it might happen, in the gradual…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lest when you have eaten and are full Not only once and again, but continually, day after day, being indulged with g…
Presbyterian
Moses points to the duty of a prosperous condition. Let us always remember our Benefactor. In everything we must give thanks. Moses also arms us ag…
