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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me; I do not despise their love though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me but I kindly accept it, and will recompense it with my love and favour. That seek me early, i.e. with sincere affection, and great diligence, and above all other persons or things in the world; which he mentions as the effect and evidence of their love; for otherwise all men pretend to love God.

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See also Proverbs 8:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 8:17. _I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME_] Wisdom shows itself; teaches man the knowledge of himself; shows him also the will of God concerning him; manifests the snares and dangers of life, th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THAT LOVE ME. Illustrations: Joseph (Genesis 37:2 :; Genesis 37:13; Genesis 37:16. Pro 39:3, Pro 39:9. Pro 41:38); Samuel (1 Samuel 2:26;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _early_ Rather DILIGENTLY, R.V. text, though R.V. marg. retains, early. See Proverbs 1:28, _note_. Wisdom is as accessible as she is desirable....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 769 ADDRESS PREPARATORY TO CONFIRMATION Proverbs 8:17. _I love them that love me; and those that seek me early, shall find me_. THESE are the words of our blessed Lord [Note: ver. 22–31.],...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME— In order to seek for wisdom with the earnestness that she merits, we must know her, and love her: we must by our continual prayers seek for this excellent good, and intreat G...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 8:12-21 12. I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion. 13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME: AND THOSE THAT SEEK ME EARLY SHALL FIND ME. So the Qeri' or Hebrew margin reads ( 'ohabay (H157)); bu...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:17 early (i-12) Or 'earnestly.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME. — Comp. John 14:21 : he that loveth me.... I will love him....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲ֭נִי _אֹהֲבַ֣י_† אֵהָ֑ב וּ֝ מְשַׁחֲרַ֗י יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      “BETTER THAN GOLD” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a Pr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I love them that love me; and those that seek me (g) early shall find me. (g) That is, study the word of God diligently, and with a desire to profit....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my re...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME,.... Those that love Christ are such who are born again, and have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of him; that believe in him, have seen his loveliness, have had his lo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Ver. 17. _I love them that love me._] The philosopher could say, that if moral virtue could be seen with mortal eyes, she would s...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I love them that love me_ I do not despise their love, though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me, but I kindly accept it, and will recompense it with my love and favour; _and those that...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I love them that love Me, exercising this love in all the circumstances of life, AND THOSE THAT SEEK ME EARLY, as they do for the first evidences of the dawn in the East after a dark night, SHALL FIND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-21 Wisdom, here is Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word, and Christ in the heart; not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. All...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 8:17 love H157 (H8799) love H157 (H8802) diligently H7836 (H8764) find H4672 (H8799) I love

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    3). WISDOM HATES EVIL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR BUT ENABLES JUST GOVERNMENT FROM THOSE WHO LOVE HER (PROVERBS 8:13). This subsection which majors on wisdom's role in ensuring just government where she i...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 8:17 I. "I love them that love Me." It might be inferred from such words as these, that man must love God as a preliminary to or condition of God's loving man. But the truth is that our love...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:17. EARLY, _i.e._, “earnestly” (see on ch. Proverbs 1:28). PROVERBS 8:18. DURABLE. Zöckler thinks this rather signifies “growing.”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 4:19; 1 Samuel 2:30; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Isaiah 45:19; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I love — I do not despise their love, but kindly accept it and recompence it with my love and favour. Early — With sincere affection and diligence, which he mentions as the evidence of their love....

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