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Verse Proverbs 20:4. _THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOUGH_] For other parts
of this character, see the preceding chapter. It is seldom that there
is a _season_ of very cold weather in Palestine; very cold _...
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Plowing time in Palestine is in November and December, when the wind
blows commonly from the North....
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CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT
Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found
mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if
applied to Solomon....
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PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs
20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self
characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought.
P...
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PLOW. Plowing always done during the early rains.
COLD. autumn. Put by Figure of speech _Metalepsis,_ "cold" put for
Autumn, and "Autumn" put for abundance of fruits possessed at that
time.
THEREFOR...
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_cold_ Rather, WINTER, A.V. marg. and R.V. See Genesis 8:22, where the
Heb. word here used is rendered "winter," and another Heb. word is
used for "cold."
_beg_ This rendering, which is retained in R....
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DISCOURSE: 800
THE CONSEQUENCE OF SLOTH
Proverbs 20:4. _The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold:
therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing_.
ARGUMENTS from analogy, when the analog...
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CHAPTER 20
TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10
1.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise,
2.
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
He that provoketh him...
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he
beg in harvest, and have nothing.
THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOW BY REASON OF THE COLD - Hebrew, the
winter. Disinclination is neve...
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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Read, 'In the autumn.. therefore when he seeketh,' etc.: the first
season begins about October, the second about April....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 20
V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts
at you.
If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....
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Solomon uses humour here. The farmer in verse 4 was too lazy to plough
his land. When the harvest is due, he gets a bad surprise. There is no
food.
Even a stupid farmer knows that he must plough the...
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מֵ֭ חֹרֶף עָצֵ֣ל לֹא ־יַחֲרֹ֑שׁ
_וְ_†_שָׁאַ֖ל_†...
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CHAPTER 21
IDLENESS
"After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in
the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4
WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
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SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY
Proverbs 20:1-15
Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains
an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is
entrenched, it mocks at...
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Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one
answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It i...
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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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THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOUGH BY REASON OF THE COLD,.... Or, "in the
cold"; in the time of cold, as Aben Ezra; in the time of autumn, which
is the time of ploughing, when it begins to be cold weather,...
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_The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall
he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing._
Ver. 4. _The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold._] So the
spiritual sluggard e...
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_The sluggard will not plough by reason of cold_ The cold of the
ploughing season, being in the latter end of autumn, and toward
winter, or early in the spring. He hates and avoids all laborious and
d...
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V. 4. THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOW BY REASON OF THE COLD, the
disagreeable weather furnishing him a welcome excuse to keep him from
tilling the soil; THEREFORE SHALL HE BEG IN HARVEST AND HAVE NOTHING,...
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COLD:
Or, winter...
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Proverbs 20:4 lazy H6102 plow H2790 (H8799) winter H2779 beg H7592
(H8804) (H8675) H7592 ...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be
sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
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Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book
of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with
harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
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_The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he
beg in harvest, and have nothing._
THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
The present is intimately related to the future; and the future wi...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:1. STRONG DRINK. The Hebrew word _Shekhar_ includes every
strong drink besides wine. Delitzsch translates it _mead_.
PROVERBS 20:2. THE FEAR OF A KING, _i.e_., the dread...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 20:1
WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from
the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing
what men do under its influence. Thus...
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Into chapter 20.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1).
He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next
week,...
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2 Peter 1:5; Matthew 25:24; Matthew 25:3; Proverbs 10:4; Pro