Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left - (Proverbs 4:25.) The image is from the king's highway (Numbers 20:17; Deuteronomy 2:27). God's holy law is our heavenly King's highway. We must not in the lost turn aside from it into the by-ways of superstitious will-worship on the one hand, and unbelieving self-subfficiency on the other (Deuteronomy 5:32; Deuteronomy 17:11; Deuteronomy 17:20). The least declension from the truth of God, doctrinal or practical, is sinful and dangerous (Matthew 5:19; James 2:10). Cartwright (in Bridges) says, 'It is as if the royal way was hemmed in by the sea, and a fall over either side were danger of drowning. Some are too greedy, others too ascetic. Some are too held, others too diffident Some neglect the One Mediator, others seek more mediators than one. Some flee the cross, others make one. Some tamper with Popery, others, from dread of it, hazard the loss of valuable truth.'