Page talk:An Exposition of the Old and New Testament (1828) vol 3.djvu/82

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Reprints of Matthew Henry's exposition after his death (but probably only from around 1800) include quotation marks around reported speech. These are not specifically quotations from anywhere, but an expression of what Matthew Henry suggested Bible people were expressing. A number of editions have an unclosed quote here:

"Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands; thou hast mercy in store for me, not only as made by thy providence, but new-made by thy grace; otherwise he that made them will not save them.

I found a more modern edition that closes the quote after "grace".

I have left it open and not inserted a SIC as there is no certain alternative.

PS There is another mystery here! A number of writers of the Puritan period quote Isaiah 27:11 as saying "he that made them will not save them". However, despite trawling through the various translations at textusreceptusbibles.com I have been unable to locate the source for this rendering. PeterR2 (talk) 10:07, 31 July 2023 (UTC)