Proverbs 24:2
Destruction — How they may oppress and destroy others.... [ Continue Reading ]
Destruction — How they may oppress and destroy others.... [ Continue Reading ]
Through wisdom — There is no need that thou shouldest raise thy family by ruining others, which thou mayest more effectually do by wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
By knowledge — Which in scripture phrase includes the love and practice of what we know.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is strong — Is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by strength.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy war — War is better managed by wisdom than by strength.... [ Continue Reading ]
A fool — For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not — He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall be called — Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, he shall be branded with that infamy which is due to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
The thought — The very inward thought or contrivance of evil, is a sin in God's sight.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deliver — When it is in thy power. Drawn — By the violence of lawless men.... [ Continue Reading ]
Consider — That this is only a frivolous excuse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Eat — This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was an usual food.... [ Continue Reading ]
A reward — It is not only sweet for the present, but brings a sure and everlasting reward.... [ Continue Reading ]
Falleth — Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the foregoing verse, and in the following branch of this verse. Fall — Frequently into irrecoverable destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
Falleth — Into mischief.... [ Continue Reading ]
From him — Understand, upon thee, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase.... [ Continue Reading ]
No reward — All his happiness shall quickly and eternally perish. The candle — All their comfort and glory shall cease.... [ Continue Reading ]
To change — That are unstable in their obedience to God or to the king.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who knoweth — Who can conceive how sore and sudden will be the ruin of them that fear not God, and the king.... [ Continue Reading ]
These — The counsels following, to the end of the chapter, no less than those hitherto mentioned, are worthy of their consideration.... [ Continue Reading ]
Rebuke — That publickly and judicially rebuke and condemn the wicked. Delight — The peace of a good conscience.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall kiss — Shall respect him. A right answer — That speaks pertinently and plainly, and truly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Received — I learned wisdom by his folly.... [ Continue Reading ]