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                                                                      Dijon 7th Oct. 1849
                                                                      
                                                                       AUTUMNAL JOURNEY 1849.	
                                                                      Truth.	Passages respecting it in Proverbs: may be topically
                                                                      arranged thus.
                                                                      1.	God’s Love of Truth:  and Hatred of Lying.
                                                                      Among the Seven things which are abomination unto
                                                                      God, VI 17 the Second is "the  Lying Tongue", and the
                                                                      5th the False witness that speaketh lies:  Now I
                                                                      imagine the first of these to be spoken of Falsehood
                                                                      generally:  and the Second more especially of False
                                                                      preaching:  in which sense if the word Witness be 
                                                                      generally understood, it will give peculiar force to
                                                                      many passages of Proverbs. Vid below II.
                                                                      Again, XII 22 "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord
                                                                      but they that deal truly are his delight:"  Ah, if one
                                                                      could but feel, ever so little, what i[r]t was to be a 
                                                                      Delight of God.
                                                                      II.	The Saving of Souls by Speaking Truth:  thus 14 25
                                                                      	"A true witness delivereth souls: but a false witness 
                                                                      	speaketh lies."  Probably there is a meaning of the
                                                                      	same kind in 12, 17  He that speakeath truth showeth
                                                                      	forth righteousness:  but a false witness deceit:
                                                                      	which is either comparatively a meaningless verse, or
                                                                      	one pregnant with exceeding meaning:  as that he who
                                                                      	preaches  truly, shows forth  Christ’s righteousness, but

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