[447] Prov. xvi. 32.
[448] Prov. x. 12.
[449] 1 Peter iv. 8.
[450] James v. 20.
[451] 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
[452] This meaning of מַרְפֶּא, as was observed in Lecture XII., p. [172], seems to yield the best sense in these two passages (cp. xii. 18; xiii. 17), as in Eccl. x. 4, "gentleness allayeth great offences," which is a good commentary on our text.
[453] Prov. xiv. 30.
[454] Prov. xv. 4.
[455] Prov. xx. 22.
[456] Missionary Review of the World, Feb. 1889, p. 143.