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The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
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The 'Soul of Blessing'
Commentators like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that the Hebrew for "liberal soul" is literally "a soul of blessing." This means the verse isn't just about feeling generous, but about actively giving good things to others, thereby becoming a source of blessing to them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Liberal soul - literally, “the soul that blesses,” that is, gives freely and fully. The similitudes are both of them essentially Eastern. Fa…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The liberal soul shall be made fat Or, "the soul of blessing" F3 : that is, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it…
Both in temporal and spiritual things, God commonly deals with his people according to the measure by which they deal with their fellow believers.<…