Christian Lifestyles
September, 2017 Volume 6, Issue 4
The Newsletter Celebrating Christian Life in Your Community
to judge of others by ourselves. The difficulties in the con“As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” wording of the sentence do not affect the interProverbs 27:19 struction and pretation.”2 “As we see our own face when we look on the mirror-like surface of the water, so in every heart of man we may see our own likeness. In spite of all diversities we come upon the common human nature in which we all alike share. Others see in the reference to the reflection in the water the thought that we judge of others by ourselves, find them faithful or the reverse, as we ourselves are.”1 “As in clear water the face of the gazer is reflected, so man finds in his fellow man the same feelings, sentiments, passions, which he has himself. He sees in others the likeness of himself; whatever he knows himself to be, he will see others presenting the same character. Self-knowledge, too, leads to insight into others' minds; "for what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?" (1 Corinthians 2:11). There is a solidarity in human nature which enables us
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1 Barnes Notes on the Bible, http://biblehub.com/commentaries/barnes/proverbs/27.htm Pulpit Commentary, ttp://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/proverbs/27.htm