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Verse Proverbs 9:16. _WHOSO_ IS _SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER_]
FOLLY or PLEASURE here personified, uses the very same expressions as
employed by _Wisdom_, Proverbs 9:4. Wisdom says, "Let the simpl...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)_
2. The contrast with Folly. (Proverbs 9:13)
Proverbs 9:1. The first section of Proverbs closeth with a contrast of
Wisdom and Folly, both pers...
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PROVERBS 9. THE INVITATIONS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY CONTRASTED. This
section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly
personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by with...
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Proverbs 9:13. The Introduction, or first main division of the Book,
ends with the contrasted picture of Folly. She too has her house, at
the door of which she sits (Proverbs 9:14); she too, though th...
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WHOSO IS SIMPLE— This is a most specious and artful detortion of the
address of Wisdom; by which she would insult the friends of religion,
truth, and holiness....
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TEXT Proverbs 9:10-18
10.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom;
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied,
And the years of thy lif...
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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him,
WHOSO IS SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER: AND AS FOR HIM THAT WANTETH
UNDERSTANDING, SHE SAITH T...
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THE RIVALS
Folly and Wisdom invite guests to their respective houses. The
consequences of accepting either of the two invitations are described.
We are reminded of the Greek parable, 'The choice of H...
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We heard this invitation earlier, in verse 4. The Foolish Woman gives
the same words of invitation as the woman called Wisdom.
The Foolish Woman also calls ‘simple’ people. Evil people have
decided a...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 9
Solomon’s last, great lesson to his son is almost complete. Perhaps
Solomon paused here. Maybe he thought about whether he had taught
enough...
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WHOSO IS SIMPLE... — She imitates Wisdom closely in her address:
Satan, too, transforms himself into an “angel of light” (2
Corinthians 11:14). Folly attracts those undecided characters who are
in the...
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מִי ־פֶ֭תִי יָסֻ֣ר הֵ֑נָּה וַ חֲסַר
־לֵ֝֗ב
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CHAPTER 2
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of
the Holy One is underst...
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CHAPTER 10
TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY
Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with
Prove
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TWO CONTRASTED INVITATIONS
Proverbs 9:1-18
There is an age-long competition between Wisdom and Folly, Virtue and
Vice. The palace of Wisdom is very attractive-well built and well
furnished. It is...
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The last address is a contrast between wisdom and folly. Each is
personified as a woman calling to youth. Wisdom has builded her house,
and spread her feast in the high places of the city. She calls t...
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A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For
she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of
the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Who...
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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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WHOSO [IS] SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER,.... The harlot's house,
Popish chapels and churches. She uses the same form of words that
Wisdom does, Proverbs 9:4; having a form of godliness, a show of
re...
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Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Ver. 16. _Who is simple._] Wisdom's own words. Pro 9:4 Take heed,
saith our Saviour; they com...
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_Whoso is simple_ Which title is not given to them by her; for such a
reproach would not have allured them, but driven them away; but by
Solomon, who represents the matter of her invitation in his own...
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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither, to partake of the banquet of
her folly, to be steeped ever more thoroughly in foolishness; AND AS
FOR HIM THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING, lacking in this essential...
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THE BANQUET OF FOLLY...
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13-18 How diligent the tempter is, to seduce unwary souls into sin!
Carnal, sensual pleasure, stupifies conscience, and puts out the
sparks of conviction. This tempter has no solid reason to offer; a...
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SIMPLE; which title is not given to them by her, for such a reproach
would not have allured them, but driven them away; but by Solomon, who
represents the matter of her invitation in his own words, th...
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Proverbs 9:16 simple H6612 in H5493 (H8799) lacks H2638 understanding
H3820 says H559 (H8804)...
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THE APPEAL OF WOMAN FOLLY TO THE NAIVE (PROVERBS 9:13).
There is no suggestion that Woman Folly's house is opulent or
well-provisioned. And indeed she herself is described as ‘turbulent'
and ‘knowing...
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Proverbs 9:3 , PROVERBS 9:16
I. Choose. Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a reason
for what he does, and has a will in doing it. Be the masters and lords
of the circumstances in which y...
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CONTENTS: Wisdom (Christ) and sin, as rivals for the soul of man.
CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom.
CONCLUSION: Christ and sin are both seeking to have the uppermost
place in the soul of man. We are therefor...
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Proverbs 9:1. _Wisdom hath builded her house._ This chapter opens with
a sublime allegory. We see the princess, the mother of angels and men,
enthroned in her temple, “the church which is the pillar a...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 9:13. A FOOLISH WOMAN, rather, “the woman of folly,” an
exact opposition of the personified wisdom of the former part of the
chapter. CLAMOROUS, “violently excited” _(Zöckle...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 9:1
15. _Fifteenth admonitory discourse, _containing in a parabolic form
an invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1), and that of her rival Folly
(Proverbs 9:13). Th
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Chapter 9 continues in its praise of wisdom.
Wisdom hath built her house, she has hewn out the seven pillars: She
has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; and she has furnished
her table. And...