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Pro_29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not.
Ver. 24. Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul.] Since to hold the bag is as bad as to fill it; to consent to sin or to conceal it, as bad as to commit it. By the one as well as by the other, a man may easily become, as Korah did, "a sinner against his own soul," and cruelly cut the throat of it. Let our public thieves look to this. See Isa_1:23.
He heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.] See Lev_5:1. {See Trapp on "Lev_5:1"} To conceal treason is treason, so here. "Have no fellowship therefore with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Let me be counted proud or pragmatic, saith Luther, {a} rather than found guilty of sinful silence, while my Lord suffereth.
{a} Luth. Epist. ad Staupic