CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:1. PROVERBS. See Introduction.
PROVERBS 1:2. INSTRUCTION, properly “chastisement,” signifying
moral training, admonition, then good habits, the practical side of
wisdom.
PROVERBS 1:3. WISDOM. A different word from that in Proverbs 1:2. It
means “prudence.” JUSTICE rela... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:5. WISE COUNSELS, or “capability to guide,” literally
“_helmsmanship_.”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 1:5_
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A WISE MAN
I. HE WILL HEAR. He shows that he values what he has already attained
by giving heed to those who are able to ad... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:7. FOOLS, derived from a word meaning to be gross and dull
of understanding. Gesenius understands it to signify “one who turns
away,” the “perverse.”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 1:7_
THE ROOT OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE AND THE MEANS OF ITS ATTAINMENT
When the... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:10. ENTICE THEE, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads
“if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no
entrance.”
PROVERBS 1:17. Some interpret this verse as referring to the godly who
escape the snares laid for them, others to the wicked, who, not so
wise... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew.
PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.”
PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch. Proverbs
8:17, Hosea 5:15. The person now changes from the second to the third,
“as though wisdom were increasi... [ Continue Reading ]