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Gill's Exposition
Do not err, my beloved brethren. For to make God the author of sin, or to charge him with being concerned in temptation to sin, is a very great error, a fundamental one, which strikes at the nature…
Barnes' Notes
Do not err, my beloved brethren - This is said as if there were great danger of error in the point under consideration. The point on which he would guard them, seems to have been in respect to the…
Adam Clarke
Do not err - By supposing that God is the author of sin, or that he impels any man to commit it.
I. We are here taught that God is not the author of any man's sin. Whoever they are who raise persecutions against men, and whatever injustice and sin they may be guilty of in proceeding against them,…
God and His perfect gifts
16. Do not err The absolute goodness of God had been presented so far on its negative side as excluding all origination of evil. But the writer feels that that is but a…
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