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Verse Proverbs 8:34. _WATCHING DAILY AT MY GATES_] Wisdom is
represented as having a _school_ for the instruction of men; and seems
to point out some of the most _forward_ of her _scholars_ coming,
t...
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The image is suggested probably by the Levites who guarded the doors
of the sanctuary Psalms 134:1; Psalms 135:2. Not less blessed than
theirs is the lot of those who wait upon Wisdom in the temple no...
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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 ...
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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...
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TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36
22.
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,
Before his works of old.
23.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
Before the earth was.
24.
When there...
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,
waiting at the posts of my doors.
BLESSED (IS) THE MAN THAT HEARETH ME, WATCHING DAILY AT MY GATES -
even as 'I cry at men's gates' ...
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8:34 at (a-14) Or 'keeping,' 'guarding.'...
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A king or great man would every morning find a crowd of clients
waiting to pay their court and receive his bounties. Happy the client
at Wisdom's door....
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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...
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If a man listens to wisdom, then he will benefit. This man does not
just listen to one lesson, and then walk away. Every day, he wants
more wisdom. He is like a child who is waiting at his mother’s do...
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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....
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WATCHING DAILY AT MY GATES. — A figure taken from an ardent scholar
waiting till the doors of the school are opened, and he can begin his
studies. Or it represents a courtier expecting the appearance...
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אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָם֮ שֹׁמֵ֪עַֽ֫ לִ֥י לִ
שְׁקֹ֣ד...
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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...
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FINDING WISDOM, FINDING LIFE
Proverbs 8:22-36
The world did not come into being by _chance_. It was created by an
intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the
expression of th...
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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...
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Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they
that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,...
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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...
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BLESSED [IS] THE MAN THAT HEARETH ME,.... Christ in his Gospel, as
speaking by his ministers; for hearing them is hearing him,
Luke 10:16; they have their commission from him; are his ambassadors,
an...
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Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,
waiting at the posts of my doors.
Ver. 34. _Waiting at the posts of my doors._] At the schools and
synagogues, say the Hebrews, where...
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_Now therefore hearken_, &c. Seeing I have a true love to you, and
seeing I am so thoroughly acquainted with my Father's mind, and so
excellently qualified to be your Counsellor and Ruler; _hear
instr...
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Blessed is the man that heareth Me, in willing obedience, WATCHING
DAILY AT MY GATES, eager to find out snore and more about the
fundamental truths of true wisdom, WAITING AT THE POSTS OF MY DOORS....
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THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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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...
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32-36 Surely we should hearken to Christ's voice with the readiness
of children. Let us all be wise, and not refuse such mercy. Blessed
are those who hear the Saviour's voice, and wait on him with da...
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Proverbs 8:34 Blessed H835 man H120 listens H8085 (H8802) Watching
H8245 (H8800) daily H3117 H3117 gates...
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6). WISDOM BRINGS BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR HER FOR THROUGH HER THEY
FIND LIFE AND COME INTO THE FAVOUR OF GOD (PROVERBS 8:32).
Because her delight was with the sons of men Wisdom calls on men to
lis...
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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...
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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...
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_Blessed is the man that heareth Me, watching daily at My gates,
waiting at the posts of My doors._
ATTENDING PUBLIC INSTRUCTION RECOMMENDED
I. The reasonableness of attending all the instituted mean...
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_The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way._
WISDOM THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD
Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological
speculations about the origin of things--an id...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:32 O SONS draws together all of
Wisdom’s paternal appeals to highlight the benefits of wisdom for
faithful covenant living. ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH. Those who
practice w...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 8:36. SINNETH AGAINST, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch,
and Miller.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:32_
EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WI...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 17:11; Acts 17:12; Acts 2:42; James 1:22; John 8:31;...
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Waiting — As servants or clients, wait at the doors of princes or
persons of eminency....