Proverbs 3:9

Honour the Lord with thy substance,.... Or, "out of thy substance" (n); for as it should be a man's own that he gives, and not another's, and therefore called "thy substance"; or, as the Septuagint…

“Substance” points to capital, “increase” to revenue. The Septuagint as if to guard against ill-gotten gains being offered as an atonement for the ill-getting, inserts the quaifying words, “honor the…

We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason: -

I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Pro 3:7): "Fear the Lord, as your…

substance … increase Perhaps (as Speaker's Comm.) capital, and revenue. It is interesting that (as there pointed out) the LXX. qualify both words, by restricting them to "righteous," well-gotten…