Text: “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.” – Proverbs 8:13.
Comment: We can understand from the text that the fear of God makes one refrain from evil, and that in essence means the keeping or doing of the commandments of God. That was why after the Israelites had seen certain wondrous things done by God in those days, Moses told them: “Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that His FEAR may be before your faces, that ye sin not.” (Exodus 20:20) In this text, two kinds of fear are shown. The first clause, “fear not”, is that of fright or worry of a person in a state of alarm. So Moses counselled them not to be alarmed or frightened. But the second in the emphasized portion is the fear of God which would make them not to sin. Furthermore, Moses exhorted the Israelites, saying: “That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.” – Deuteronomy 6:2.
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