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CHAPTER XVII
_Contentment. The wise servant. The Lord tries the heart._
_Children a crown to their parents. We should hide our_
_neighbour's faults. The poor should not be despised._
_Litigations...
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SACRIFICES - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part
of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by
the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices”...
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CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS
Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a
few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the
LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs...
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PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to
a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes
(Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test o...
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BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11.
SACRIFICES. slain beasts. Hebrew. _zebach._ App-43....
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_sacrifices with strife_ Lit. SACRIFICES OF STRIFE, but better
rendered, GOOD CHEER WITH STRIFE, A.V. marg.; or, FEASTING WITH
STRIFE, R.V. text. This rendering, however, may be arrived at in
either o...
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A DRY MORSEL— _Bread with pulse,_ or _husks._ Bochart and Houbigant.
This was the food of meaner persons; whence Horace says, Epist. 1:
lib. 2: line 123.
_Vivit siliquis et pane secundo:_
Lives on c...
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CHAPTER 17
TEXT Proverbs 17:1-10
1.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith,
Than a house full of feasting with strife.
2.
A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that ca...
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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices with strife.
BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL - without butter or oil ().
THAN A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES - victims, part o...
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17:1 feasting (h-14) Lit. 'sacrifices,' _ Zevach_ . see Note,
Deuteronomy 12:21 ....
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1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the
festal meal which followed a sacrifice (Proverbs 7:14) if it was
accompanied with a quarrel. 'A little with quiet is the only diet...
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Dry bread is not a good meal. We might prefer the rich food at a
party. But a quiet place is better than a place where people argue.
A party can be noisy and unpleasant. Any arguments will upset peop...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 17
V1 One man eats dry bread in a calm and quiet place.
But that man’s meal is better than the food at a party where there
are arguments....
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XVII.
(1) A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES. — Possibly the same as the “peace
offerings” of Proverbs 7:14 (where see note). The consumption of
these may have at times degenerated into licence (comp. 1 Samu...
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טֹ֤וב פַּ֣ת חֲ֭רֵבָה וְ שַׁלְוָה
־בָ֑הּ מִ֝
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CHAPTER 18
FRIENDSHIP
"A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for
adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the margin of
the R.V, yields a much better sense than the lo...
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Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than an house full of
(a) sacrifices [with] strife.
(a) For where there were many sacrifices, there were many portions
given to the people, with which...
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_Victims. Of which part was used for a feast, chap. vii. 14. (Calmet)
--- Septuagint add, "of many goods, and unjust victims." (Haydock)_...
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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of
sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that
causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance amon...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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BETTER [IS] A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH,.... A small
quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies;
which has been long broken off, and become "dry" x; a dry crust of
b...
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Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices [with] strife.
Ver. 1. _Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith._] Though
there be not so much as a little v...
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_Better is a dry morsel_ “Bread with pulse, or husks,” as Bochart
and Houbigant interpret it; which was the food of meaner persons; _and
quietness therewith_ Peace, love, and concord among the members...
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V. 1. BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL, without even the customary wine or
diluted vinegar, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH, harmony among all those at
the table, THAN AN HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES, a great amount of the...
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SACRIFICES:
Or, good cheer...
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 17 _Of sacrifices_; of the remainders of sacrifices,
of which they used to make feasts; of which SEE POOLE ON "PROVERBS
7:14". Or, _of slain_ beasts, as that word is used, GENESIS 31:...
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Proverbs 17:1 Better H2896 dry H2720 morsel H6595 quietness H7962
house H1004 full H4392 feasting H2077 strife H7379
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: About the most satisfactory substitute for wisdom is
silence. Discretion of speech is better than fluency of speech.
KEY W...
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Proverbs 17:1. _Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith._ See
Proverbs 15:17.
Proverbs 17:3. _The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace_ (or
crucible) _for gold._ Silver ores in Mexico are...
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_Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices with strife._
THE MAKER AND BREAKER OF A FAMILY’S PEACE
Truth sweetens the relations of life; falsehood eats like ru...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 17:1 A poor but loving home is better than
a home filled with FEASTING and STRIFE (see Proverbs 5:17).
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 17:1. SACRIFICES, literally _killings_, _i.e._, slain beasts,
not necessarily animals killed for sacrifice....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 17:1
(Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) Better
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Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of
sacrifices with strife (Proverbs 17:1).
Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in
that economy the of the Judai...
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Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 7:14;...