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A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha was written by a variety of respected Anglican scholars and edited by Charles Gore, H. L. Goudge, and Alfred Guillaume. Created in the spirit of progressive criticism, this commentary posits conclusions that differ widely from the accepted views of the day. The scholars dedicated to this work believed that the Apocrypha was extremely...

giver of gifts, i.e. the rich man who is not proud is loved more than the rich man who dispenses alms in the pride of wealth. 19 is not found in the best Greek MSS., nor does it occur in the Hebrew; it runs ‘Many are exalted and esteemed, but the mysteries (of God) are revealed to the lowly.’ This is evidently a variant of 20; in this verse the Hebrew has For many are the mercies of God, and he revealeth his secret to the humble; this is to be preferred (cf. Ps 25:14; Pr 3:32). By the ‘secret’ of