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Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; But one who keeps the law is blessed.
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"Vision" Means Divine Revelation
All commentators agree that the "vision" in this verse is not personal ambition or a corporate mission statement, but divine revelation. It specifically refers to prophecy and the public preaching of God's Word. As Albert Barnes notes, it is the "revelation of God’s will made to prophets."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Vision – The word commonly used of the revelation of God’s will made to prophets. Compare Isaiah 1:1; Nahum 1:1.
When prop…
19th Century
Anglican
Where there is no vision. —No revelation of God’s will (Isaiah 1:1), when God teaches none by His Spirit to i…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Where [there is] no vision, the people perish
That is, "no prophecy", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; and…
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How bare does a place look without Bibles and ministers! And what an easy prey it is to the enemy of souls! That gospel is an open vision, which pr…
