Proverbs 17:1
_Victims. Of which part was used for a feast, chap. vii. 14. (Calmet) --- Septuagint add, "of many goods, and unjust victims." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Victims. Of which part was used for a feast, chap. vii. 14. (Calmet) --- Septuagint add, "of many goods, and unjust victims." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brethren. Partaking with them, (Abenezra; Tirinus; Menochius) or rather acting as his master's executor; which evinces the advantages of wisdom, so as to raise a slave above those whom his station requires him to serve. Such was Joseph, who was tried._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lips. They mutually deceive one another, as well as others._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fathers. Whose virtues they are bound to imitate._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eloquent. Septuagint, "faithful." They cannot be expected from them._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Expecteth heavenly things. Septuagint, "instruction is the reward of good deeds to those who use it."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Friends. Detractors cause dissensions, and even wars._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fools. "A word is enough for the wise." Nobilis equus umbra virgæ regitur, ignavus ne calcari quidem. (Q. Curtius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Angel. Messenger of death, (Menochius) which is sometimes inflicted by good, at others by bad, angels of death, or satan, 2 Corinthians xii. 7., and Psalm lxxvii. 49._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fool. Hebrew, "fool in his folly." The danger is not greater in meeting (Calmet) a female bear, though it be the most terrible. (Aristotle, Anim. ix. 1.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Water. It is scarcely possible to prevent the bad effects of detraction. Frequent quarrels have also risen on account of springs, Genesis xxvi. 20. --- Judgment. And gives up the cause, as being much more prudent, Matthew v. 25, 40._... [ Continue Reading ]
_God. We ought to suspend our judgment, or incline to the more favourable side, Matthew vii. 1., and Romans ii. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_He, &c., is not here in Hebrew, though it be equivalently (ver. 19.) where the Septuagint are silent. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Distress. Like the real friend, chap. xviii. 24._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hands. Through joy, or as a mark of his consent._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Door. Sixtus V reads, "mouth:" as some explain the door to mean. A large door supposes that the house is elevated, and thus exposed to danger from winds, &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Earth. Wandering and insatiable, and deeming the acquisition of wisdom too difficult._... [ Continue Reading ]
_No good. But very criminal. See Jeremias vii. 31._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Precious and reserved spirit. This is a mark of wisdom. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XVII.... [ Continue Reading ]