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Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
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Patience with People
Commentators like Calvin and Barnes explain that it is often harder to endure suffering inflicted by other people than it is to accept hardship that seems to come directly from God. This verse calls the faithful to a higher form of patience, meekly bearing personal insults and injuries while recognizing God's sovereign hand is still at work.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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Let him sit alone and keep silence; For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him. Let him place his mouth in the dust;
19th Century
Anglican
He giveth his cheek ... — The submission required reaches its highest point—a patience like that of Job 16:10; we may add…
Baptist
He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him. He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there may be hope. He gives his ch…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here he mentions another fruit of patience: that the faithful, even when wronged by the wicked, should still be calm and resigned.
For many …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He gives [his] cheek to him that smites him Either to God that afflicts him, and patiently bears it; see ([Reference Isai…
Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that th…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here the author describes the condition of the one who waits.
