Proverbs 27:2
_Lips. All hate affectation and vanity, John v. 51._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lips. All hate affectation and vanity, John v. 51._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Both. He is insupportable to himself and to others, Ecclesiasticus xxii. 17._... [ Continue Reading ]
_And who. Septuagint, "but envy (zeal) beareth nothing." The more we yield to the envious, the more he is offended at our good behaviour._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Love. Which can be of no service to us, while reproof may cause us to amend._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Enemy. Joab slew Amasa, while he kissed him, 2 Kings xx. 9., and Matthew xxvi. 48. True friendship is not attentive to outward appearances._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Place, or vocation, like the prodigal son, Luke xv. The Israelites were much attached to their own country, where they might practise the true religion. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And. Septuagint add, " wine and incense....but accidents tear the soul." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Affliction. He will be less compassionate than a tried friend. --- Better, &c. This daily experience evinces. "Those who purchase land, should consider if there be plenty of water, and a neighbour." (Pliny, [Natural History?] xviii. 5.) --- The Persians honour most those who live nearest to them. ... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou. Hebrew, Complutensian, and Sixtus V, "I may," &c. Septuagint, "and cast reproaches from thee."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_In the night. Or "early in the morning," de nocte, as the Hebrew implies. --- Curseth. His importunity will be equally displeasing. (Haydock) --- Flattery is dangerous, (Calmet) and unworthy of a free man. (Cicero, de Amic.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hand. As it will flow away, such as woman is commonly incorrigible. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sharpeneth. Or instructeth. Fungar vice cotis. (Horace, Art.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Glorified. He who serves his master well shall be promoted._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Are. Hebrew, "to men." Our hearts have all something similar. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "as faces are not like each other, so neither are the hearts of men." They have all come peculiarity. (Haydock) --- But this agrees not with the original._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destruction. Hebrew abaddo, or abadon, chap. xv. 11., and Apocalypse ix. 11. People die, and are plunged in hell daily. --- Eyes. Avarice and ambition, Ecclesiasticus xiv. 9._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Praiseth. If he be not puffed up, or if all agree in his praises, we may conclude that they are well founded. --- The, &c., is not in Hebrew, Complutensian, St. Jerome, or Chaldean, and destroys the connection._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mortar. Such were used by those who could not afford handmills. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Flocks. John x. 3., and Ecclesiasticus vii. 24. This may be applied to pastors._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Generation. Thou wilt be cited as an example of prudence, if thou hast forseen the change of thy affairs, and provided for it. In the east it was not unusual to see a general of an army reduced to the meanest condition, and economy is necessary for all._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Field. If thou wishest to purchase, or to pay the workmen._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXVII. _ Milk. We cannot but admire such frugality. Septuagint are rather different; (Calmet) ver. 25., "Be careful of the grass of thy field....that thou mayst have lambs for thy clothing. Honour the field, that there may be lambs for thee. (27) Son, thou hast from me solid instructions fo... [ Continue Reading ]