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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be
fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached
and each has a message by itself. To int...
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PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM.
Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular
collection.
The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
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SAYING. The Ellipsis of this verb has frequently to be supplied. See
note on Psalms 109:5....
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_in the chief place of concourse_ Lit. _at the head of the noisy
places_(_turbarum_, Vulg.). The expression _head of the streets_occurs
Isaiah 51:20; Lamentations 2:19. Comp. _at every head of the way...
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DISCOURSE: 753
THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS
Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the
streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openi...
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IN THE CHIEF PLACE OF CONCOURSE— _On the tops of the walls,_
according to the LXX; which Houbigant and Dr. Grey approve. Schultens
renders it, _at the head_ or _beginning of the most frequented
street...
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TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33
20.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street;
She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21.
She crieth in the chief place of concourse;
At the entrance of the gates,
In the city...
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the
gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
SHE CRIETH IN THE CHIEF PLACE OF CONCOURSE, IN THE OPENINGS OF THE
GATES - "the...
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The chapter falls into three principal divisions.
1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book,
which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's
knowledge. I...
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THE WOMAN CALLED WISDOM
In his second story, Solomon tells us about a woman. This woman’s
name is Wisdom.
The woman is upset, and she is angry.
This is why she shouts. Her children are not obeying...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought
peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
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CRIETH. — She cannot bear to see sinners rushing madly on their
doom. (Comp. Christ’s weeping over Jerusalem, Luke 19:41; and Romans
9:2, _sqq_; Philippians 3:18, _sqq._)...
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בְּ רֹ֥אשׁ הֹמִיֹּ֗ות תִּ֫קְרָ֥א בְּ
פִתְחֵ֖י...
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CHAPTER 2
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of
the Holy One is understa...
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THE CALL OF WISDOM
Proverbs 1:20-33
The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of
the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our
Lord, who, as the Word o...
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The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people.
Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God;
intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine
wisdom;...
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:
in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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SHE CRIETH IN THE CHIEF PLACE OF CONCOURSE,.... Where a multitude of
people meet together; the Targum is,
"on the top of palaces;''
but rather it is to be understood of the synagogues of the Jews, w...
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the
gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
Ver. 21. _In the chief place of concourse._] _Veritas non quaerit
angulos._ Chr...
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_She crieth in the chief place of concourse_ Where there is most
probability of success. The LXX. render it, επ ' ακρων
τειχεων κηρυσσεται, _she preacheth upon the tops of
the walls_, or _houses_, a t...
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20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the
temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken
to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...
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THE CHIEF PLACE OF CONCOURSE; where there is probability of most
success. THE OPENING OF THE GATES; where magistrates sit in judgment,
and people are assembled. So it crieth both to the wise and to th...
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Proverbs 1:21 out H7121 (H8799) chief H7218 concourses H1993 (H8802)
openings H6607 gates H8179 city H5892 speaks
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WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT TO BE HEARD, LONGING FOR RESPONSE,
PROMISING INCULCATION OF HER OWN SPIRIT, AND WARNING OF THE
CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (PROVERBS 1:20).
We have here the first of the w...
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WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT IN LONGING THAT PEOPLE WILL RESPOND
TO HER WORDS AND GAIN FROM WHAT SHE OFFERS (PROVERBS 1:20).
Wisdom is now personified as a woman crying out to people to respond
to...
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DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE
FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND
WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
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Proverbs 1:20
The wisdom of God is a manifold wisdom. While it centres bodily in
Christ, and thence issues as from its source, it is reflected and
re-echoed from every object and every event. Every la...
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CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain
ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ).
CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
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Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes.
The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short
maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
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_Wisdom crieth without _
THE VOICE OF TRUE WISDOM
The Lord Jesus Christ is the true Wisdom which speaks to the sons of
men.
The ancients were accustomed to speak of their religion as wisdom or
phil...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a
woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools
to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew.
PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.”
PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 1:1
PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION.
The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to
verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first
six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times
write a preface to their work.
The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
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Acts 5:20; John 18:20; Matthew 10:27; Matthew 13:2; Proverbs 9:3...
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WISDOM'S CALL
Proverbs 1:20
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone
among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered
circles, whe...
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Gates — Where magistrates sit in judgment, and people are assembled.
The city — Not only in the gate, but in every part of the city....