Truth Gains by Being Lived
Matthew 7:28
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:


For whereas precepts and discourses of virtue are only the dead pictures and artificial landscapes and descriptions of it, a virtuous example is virtue itself; informed and animated, alive and in motion, exerting and exhibiting itself in all its natural charms and graces. And, therefore, as we know a man much better when we see him alive and in action than when we only see his picture; so we understand virtue much better when we see it living and acting in a good example than when we only behold it described and pictured in various precepts and discourses.

(J. Scott.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:

WEB: It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,




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