Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.
Ver. 13. Take fast hold of instruction.] Nam magnum certamen sustines adversus haereticae et epicureos, saith a Jewish doctor upon this text: Heretics and epicures will seek to wring it from thee, by wrench and wile. Therefore "hold fast the faithful word, as thou hast been taught." Tit 1:9 Hold it as with tooth and nail against those gainsayers that would snatch it from thee. For "there are many unruly and vain talkers," and so there are many loose and lewd walkers too, that would bereave thee of the benefit of what thou hast learned; but "hold fast that which is good." Let it not go, Ne languescas; surcease not, slake not, give not over striving against sin and sinners.