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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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JUDGES OF THE EARTH. Some codices, with two early printed editions,
Aramaean, Syriac, read "righteous judges"; reading _zedek,_
"righteousness", instead of _'erez,_ "earth". Revised Version follows
th...
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_princes_ "or _rulers_," R.V. marg. The Heb. word is not the same as
in Proverbs 8:15. The variety of words is used in order to bring all
official positions within the domain of Wisdom.
_of the earth_...
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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...
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By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
BY ME PRINCES RULE, [ saariym (H8269)] - a different Hebrew word from
that for "princes" [ rowzªniym (H7336)] in Proverbs 8:15. The...
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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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Solomon, who wrote the Book of Proverbs, was a king. He knew that he
was responsible for many people. When he was young, he wanted to be a
good king. He studied wisdom so that he would rule wisely. Al...
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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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ALL THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH. — By the aid of heavenly wisdom only
can they give right and just judgments, and so fulfil the high office
delegated to them by God Himself, from the possession of which t...
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בִּ֭י שָׂרִ֣ים יָשֹׂ֑רוּ וּ֝
נְדִיבִ֗ים כָּל...
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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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“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...
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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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By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and
nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Reader! do pause over these verses, and in the midst of admiring and
adoring Christ in...
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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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BY ME PRINCES RULE,.... All governors of provinces and cities, who are
under the king as supreme; the discharge of whose office in a right
manner requires much wisdom, prudence, justice, and integrity...
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_By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth._
Ver. 16. _And nobles._] So called in the original, from their
liberality and bounty. Hence Luk 22:25 this word is expressed by
Eυ...
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By Me princes rule and nobles, even all the judges of the earth, the
officials of the government of every degree....
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OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM.
The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Proverbs 8:16 princes H8269 rule H8323 (H8799) nobles H5081 judges
H8199 (H8802) earth H776...
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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...
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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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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:14 Wisdom can give the simple person the
same INSIGHT used by KINGS and RULERS when they GOVERN nations...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 8:14_
THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER
I. MORAL WISDOM IS THE STRENGTH OF KINGS. “I have strength; by me
kings rule.” There is a kind of strength in all wisdom. T...
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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...