Teach them to obey while they are young, or else they will be protesting against God all their lives, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control… That child's character in the end will be self-will, pride, and conceit. Is it any wonder that men refuse to obey their Father who is in heaven, if you allow them, when children, to disobey their father who is on earth.
J.C. Ryle

Spurgeon PS1839

Spurgeon PS1839

EXPOSITION.

39,40. It is impossible to be too frequent in the duty of ascribing all our victories to the God of our salvation. It is true that we have to wrestle with our spiritual antagonists, but the triumph is far more the Lord’s than ours. We must not boast like the ambitious votaries of vainglory, but we may exult as the willing and believing instruments in the Lord’s hands of accomplishing his great designs.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.

Verse 39.–To be well girt was to be well armed in the Greek and Latin idioms, as well as in the Hebrew.–^Alexander Geddes, LL.D., 1737-1802.

HINTS TO PREACHERS.

Verse 39.–The Red Cross Knight armed for the fray.