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Pro_8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
Ver. 16. And nobles.] So called in the original, from their liberality and bounty. Hence {Luk_22:25} this word is expressed by Eõåñãåôáé , Bountiful, or benefactors, such as are ingenuous, free, munificent, endued with that free princely spirit. {Psa_51:14}
Even all the judges of the earth.] Though haply they be reckoned in the rank of bad men, but good princes; such as was Galba, and our Richard III, and Trajan, much magnified for a good emperor, and yet a drunkard and a cruel persecutor. {a}
{a} Plin. Secund. Dion. Cass.