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Can a man take fire unto his bosom and not be burned?Proverbs 6. 27 Surely no one would be so daft as to pick ...

2004 Volume 59 Issue 2

‘If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward t ...

Ian Rees

2004 Volume 59 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth; a stranger and not thine own lips’, Prov. 27. 2. There is surely nothing more insuff ...

Ian Rees

2004 Volume 59 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

As a door turns upon its hinges, so does a sluggard upon his bed, Prov. 26. 14. The sluggard in the Bible is a tragic-comic character, one who ...

Ian Rees

2005 Volume 60 Issue 1

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Job

‘I have escaped by the skin of my teeth’, Job 19. 20 The English idiom ‘escaped by the skin of one’s teeth’ is deriv ...

Ian Rees

2005 Volume 60 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Job

Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith Which of us has not preferred a simple meal with good companions ...

Ian Rees

2005 Volume 60 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, Prov. 11. 15. A friend of mine, with his wife, moved to Bath a while ago. ...

Ian Rees

2005 Volume 60 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger, Proverbs 15. 1 The natural thing to do when someone is angry with you is t ...

Ian Rees

2006 Volume 61 Issue 1

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised, Proverbs 31. 30 The NIV translates the first ...

Ian Rees

2006 Volume 61 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘For him that is joined to all living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion’, Eccles. 9. 4. To understand where Solomo ...

Ken Rudge

2006 Volume 61 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘The words of a talebearer are as wounds [dainty morsels], and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly’, Prov. 18. 8.

Ian Rees

2006 Volume 61 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

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