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Matthew 12:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

A bruised reed shall he not break, and-smoking flax shall he not quench. Though what more feeble than a cracked reed or a wick just flickering? Yet he reckons neither as useless; he allows for possibilities of improvement.

His treatment of the believer who is weakest, and, so to speak, least alive, is marked by long-suffering and gentleness.

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