DISCOURSE 2. THE SOURCE OF TRUE WISDOM IS YHWH, AND THOSE WHO TRULY SEEK WISDOM WILL FIND YHWH HIMSELF, AND HE WILL THEN REVEAL HIS WISDOM TO THEM. AND THIS WISDOM THAT GOD GIVES THEM WILL DELIVER THEM FROM ALL WHO ARE EVIL (PROVERBS 2:1). We now learn that those who receive Solomon's words and seek... [ Continue Reading ]
SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS ‘SON' TO RECEIVE HIS WORDS WITH A VIEW TO ATTAINING A TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD WHICH WILL CAUSE HIM TO REVERENCE HIM (PROVERBS 2:1). The first voice that speaks to the young man is the voice of his mentor, which echoes the voice of God (Proverbs 2:6). He calls on him to apply his... [ Continue Reading ]
SOLOMON STRESSES THAT THE SOURCE OF TRUE WISDOM IS GOD, AND THAT HE GIVES IT TO HIS OWN, IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ENABLE THEM TO APPRECIATE IT AND WALK IN IT (PROVERBS 2:6). In Proverbs 2:1 the concentration has been on earnestly seeking after God through gaining wisdom and under... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIVERANCE FROM SINFUL MEN (PROVERBS 2:12). The giving of wisdom, knowledge and understanding will deliver the young man from the way of evil. This is necessary for the second voice that speaks to the young man is that of ungodly men. In consequence the great need of the godly man is to be delivere... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIVERANCE FROM THE TEMPTATIONS OF WOMEN (PROVERBS 2:16). Solomon was very conscious of the fact that one of a man's greatest dangers in walking in the way of wisdom was the allurement and attraction of women. It is a subject that he brings up a number of times in the prologue in some detail (see a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN WHAT HAPPENS TO THE UPRIGHT, AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED (PROVERBS 2:21). Each of the first three Chapter s of Proverbs, together with Proverbs 4:1, ends with a contrast between what happens to the upright, and what happens to those who are not. In Proverbs 1:32 the contrast... [ Continue Reading ]