Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 15:24
The way — The way a wise man takes to obtain life, is to place his heart, and treasure, and conversation on things above.
The way — The way a wise man takes to obtain life, is to place his heart, and treasure, and conversation on things above.
Verse Proverbs 15:24. _THE WAY OF LIFE_ IS _ABOVE TO THE WISE_] There is a _treble_ antithesis here: 1. The way of the _wise_, and that of the _fool_. 2. The one is _above_, the other _below_. 3. T...
ABOVE ... BENEATH - The one path is all along upward, leading to the highest life. It rescues the “wise” from the other, which is all along downward, ending in the gloom of Sheol....
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
ABOVE. upward. THE WISE. a skilful one. Hebrew. _sakal._ See note on Proverbs 1:2....
_above_ Rather, UPWARD. Upward or downward the path of man must tend....
THE WAY OF LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE— Or, _The way of life to the wise is above._...
TEXT Proverbs 15:23-33 23. A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it! 24. To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneat...
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. THE WAY OF LIFE (IS) ABOVE TO THE WISE, THAT HE MAY DEPART FROM HELL BENEATH. The way of the wise tends upwards toward th...
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
Lit. 'The way of life upward is to the wise man': he escapes the premature death of the wicked....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
Solomon uses humour. Life is like a journey. When we live wisely, we are going towards heaven. This is like a journey where we are going upwards. So we are travelling away from the graves and from hel...
THE WAY OF LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE. — These words sound like a faint echo of such passages as Philippians 3:20; Colossians 3:1, though the writer’s meaning may only have been that the wise man who f...
אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים לְ מַ֣עְלָה לְ מַשְׂכִּ֑יל לְ
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
WORDS IN SEASON Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of Christ...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
_Above. Literally, "upon the learned." (Haydock) --- One path leads to the realms above. (Calmet) --- The wise must be intent on God. (Menochius)_...
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...
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...
THE WAY OF LIFE [IS] ABOVE TO THE WISE,.... Of "the way of life"; Proverbs 10:17; this is said to be "above", or it tends "to [what is] above"; it leads to heaven and happiness above; the life itself...
_The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath._ Ver. 24. _The way of life is above to the wise._] He goes a higher way than his neighbour, even in his common businesse...
_The way of life is above to the wise_ The way which a wise man takes to preserve and obtain spiritual and eternal life, is to place his heart, treasure, and conversation in things above; and to manag...
V. 24. THE WAY OF LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE, he directs his course upward, aiming at a higher degree of sanctification with every new day, his eye set on the reward held out by the mercy of God, THAT...
THE WAY OF LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE; the way or course which a wise man taketh to preserve and obtain life, is to place his heart, and treasure, and conversation in things above, and to manage all hi...
Proverbs 15:24 way H734 life H2416 upward H4605 wise H7919 (H8688) away H5493 (H8800) hell H7585 below...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:24. THE WAY OF LIFE IS ABOVE, etc., rather “An upward path of life,” etc. HELL, Sheôl, as in Proverbs 15:11. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:24_ THE UPWARD AND
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If...
Colossians 3:1; Colossians 3:2; Jeremiah 21:8; John 14:6; Matthew 7:14