SECOND DIVISION. SAYINGS OF LEMUEL. A manual of directions for kings.
Proverbs 31:1. The title is uncertain. RV is not grammatically
correct. Read _mg._ MASSA (_mg.),_ rendered oracle in Proverbs 31:30,
and here by RV, is the regular word for the oracles of the earlier
prophets, but is strange in th... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRD DIVISION. THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
Proverbs 31:10. This, the last division of the appendix, is in form an
acrostic poem, each verse commencing with a letter of the Heb.
alphabet in order. There are several more or less perfect specimens of
such literary exercises in the OT_ e.g._ Psalms 111 f., La... [ Continue Reading ]