The “fear” here is not so much reverential awe, as anxious, or “nervous” sensitiveness of conscience. To most men this temperament seems that of the self-tormentor. To him who looks deeper it is a condition of blessedness, and the callousness which is opposed to it ends in misery.
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Proverbs 28:14
14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.