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Proverbs 16:2
2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the motives.
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First, the wicked man takes deliberate pains to devise evil, much as a miner searches for treasure in concealed depths.
Yet the mind claims a sovereignty over the body that the body can never assert in return.
Infinite Benevolence would have His saints to be happy.
The distinction between these two gifts proves essential: instruction consists in the communication of right principles; counsel in the advice by which you may apply those principles practically.
This distinction matters profoundly: true wisdom must manifest in *phronesis* (practical wisdom) and conduct, not remain abstract knowledge.
This Hebrew rebuke strikes at a weakness of human nature: we minimize the commonplace and exalt the distant.
Exell's Victorian commentary unpacks the deceptive nature of rebellion: "Treason and rebellion are such horrid and loathsome crimes that if they should appear in their native visage and genuine deformity they could never form a party." Instead, they insinuate themselves...
The ablest theologians have settled that good intention cannot sanctify an immoral act; yet an evil intention will certainly corrupt even the best performances.
Joseph Exell identified five corrupted standards by which multitudes measure duty, each leading toward *thanatos* (death).