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Pro_2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Ver. 1. My son.] Fatherly and filial affection ought to be between teacher and hearers. "But who is their father?" {1Sa_10:12} "O my father, my father," said he to the dying prophet. {2Ki_13:14} "Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest," said that idolatrous Micah to the wandering Levite. {Jdg_17:10} Popish novices do so observe their padres (as they call them), that though they command them a voyage to China or Peru, without dispute or delay they presently set forward {a} Tu et asinus unum estote, said one once to a young novice, who being about to enter into a monastery, asked his counsel how he should carry himself. "Come, children, hearken unto me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord." {Psa_34:11}
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