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Pro_22:15 Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Ver. 15. Foolishness is bound in the heart, &c.] As a pack or fardle is bound to a horse’s back. Error and folly be the knots of Satan, wherewith he ties children to the stake to be burnt in hell. Better see their brains dashed out against the stones, saith one, than suffer the ignorance of God to abide in their heads. Therefore, that we may loose the bands of death and works of the devil, parents must bring their sons in their arms, and their daughters upon their shoulders, to the house of God, that they may learn to know him. {Isa_49:22} They must also see to their profiting, and exact of them a daily growth, "nurturing," as well as nourishing them, {Eph_6:4} - the one being as needful as the other, - and using the rod where words will not do; so to chase away that evil by chastisement, seasoned with admonition, and seconded with prayer, that else will prove pernicious to their souls. Eli brought up his sons to bring down his house. David’s sons were undone by their father’s fondness. A fair hand, we say, makes a foul wound. Correction is a kind of cure, saith Aristotle; {a} and God usually blesseth it to that purpose. "Corrections of instructions are the way of life." {Pro_6:23}
{a} Iáôñåéá ôéò ç ðáéäåéá .