What to do on Thursday: A Layman's Guide to the Practical Use of the Scriptures
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The whole verse is speaking of someone who will not allow a matter to die.
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Rather than teaching that one should refuse to raise a matter at all (a notion that contradicts other passages of Scripture), the second line shows that the verse refers to a situation in which the matter was properly disposed of (by rebuke and forgiveness presumably) and ought to be buried forever. The one half of the verse clarifies the other.
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