chastening

• “The real object of the fathers in chastening is not that they find pleasure in the children's pain.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “The objection that chastening is grievous is here anticipated and answered.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “Loving the wife as Christ loves the church will be inclusive of 'chastening' - Domestic Discipline when necessary.”

  Christian Domestic Discipline

• “Like Heaven's Gate, Where the Wild Things Are was a movie whose budget was totally out of whack with the financial realities of what was on-screen, and it has been widely described as a chastening flop.”

  The Guardian: Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people

• “Now divine chastening is a sign of divine love: Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth (Heb. xii.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “The word used for discipline in the Bible refers to the chastening, training, or instructing of our children.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Power of A Positive Mom

• “If -- The oldest manuscripts read, "With a view to chastening (that is, since God's chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently"; so Vulgate.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “So often do we see Gods faithful children deprived of almost every joy and comfort, and if we did not believe the chastening was a token of love -- what a dark world this would be!”

  Lenoir Family. Lenoir Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865.

• “The middle strophe and antistrophe describe the richness of this prize; the opening strophe makes 'chastening' the cost at which it is obtained by the individual from the Lord; and the corresponding antistrophe (at the end) explains the reason for this costliness -- wisdom was the instrument by which the whole universe was created.”

  Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature

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