For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Shun evil if you will, but that is not enough; you must actively study the methods of duty. Bend your ear to wisdom's sayings, lodge them deep in your heart as commanding principles, and let them remain fixed before your eyes. They are both food and medicine to the soul: the nourishment by which spiritual life is sustained, and the healing by which the whole man is restored.
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Commenting on Proverbs 4:20-27
For they are life unto those that find them,.... The words or doctrines of Christ, whose type Solomon was, are to be found in the field of the Scriptures, by diligent searching for them; and being found, they are the means of spiritual life, and of maintaining it, and of showing the way, and bringing unto eternal life; see Joh 6:63; and health to all...
health . . . flesh--by preserving from vices destructive of health.