Exhortation to Various Virtues.
OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED. — V. 11. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, the correction which He deals out in the school of life; neither be weary of His correction, regarding it with loathing and aversion; v. 12. for whom the Lord loveth He correcteth, and so the person subject to His discipline thereby receives a proof of His love; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth, or, “holds him dear as a father his son," in whose case the lack of discipline is rightly referred to a want of fatherly love. Compare Job 5, 17; Heb. 12, 5. 6.