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Guard God's Word from Additions
Commentators unanimously warn against adding to God's revealed Word. This includes elevating human traditions, personal revelations, or philosophical speculations to the same level as Scripture. Scholars like John Gill point to historical examples, such as Jewish oral law or unwritten church traditions, as precisely what this verse prohibits, emphasizing that God's Word alone is the sufficient standard.
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18th Century
Theologian
People are not to mingle revealed truth with their own imaginations and traditions. In speculating on the unseen, the risk of error is indefinitely…
19th Century
Bishop
Lest he reprove you.— Or, convict you of your falsehood.
17th Century
Pastor
Add you not to his words To the words of God; as the Jews did, by joining their oral law, or the traditions of the elders…
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17th Century
Minister
Agur speaks of himself as lacking righteousness and having acted very foolishly. And it is fitting for us all to have humble thoughts of ourselves.…