Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
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Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes [reach] the innermost parts.
By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.
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Matthew Henry · Verse 30
Severe rebukes sometimes do a great deal of good. But such is the corruption of nature, that men are loth to be rebuked for their sins. If God uses severe afflictions, to purify our hearts and fit us for his service, we have cause to be very thankful.
Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.
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