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Proverbs 10 - Introduction

II. First Collection of Proverbs 10:1 to Proverbs 22:16

Ch. 10. Title. The Proverbs of Solomon

At this point we pass from the direct and continuous appeal of the opening Chapter s of the Book to the first and by far the largest Collection of proverbs proper, that is to say of short and for the most part disconnected maxims, each of them contained as a rule in a couplet or distich formed strictly on the model of Hebrew parallelism. "Golden sayings," Maurer calls them, "not unworthy of Solomon, and fitted to form and fashion the whole life." It is only however as regards the mould in which it is cast, not in its tone or principles, that the teaching of the Book takes here a new departure.

In this first Collection each verse contains a proverb, generally antithetic, and consists of two members only. On the apparent exception, Proverbs 19:7, see note there.

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See also Proverbs 10 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PRO 10- 12. 16. SECOND SECTION. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON. For the character and date see Introduction. The general plan of this Commentary requires that the paragraph and not the verse be taken as the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _FROM THIS CHAPTER TO THE FIVE-AND-TWENTIETH, ARE SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS UPON MORAL VIRTUES, AND THEIR CONTRARY VICES._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    NOTICEABLE GROUPINGS IN CHAPTER 10 _The righteous_ The memory of the righteous (Proverbs 10:7). The mouth of the righteous (Proverbs 10:11; Proverbs 10:31). The labor of the righteous ...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:2 instruction; (i-5) 'Wisdom' here and in ver. 7 is _ chokmah_ . 'Instruction' means also, 'correction,' 'warning,' 'discipline,' Job 36:10 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 10 From this chapter to the "twenty fifth" are various proverbial sentences, without any very apparent connection or coherence with each other; describing righteous and wicke...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 3004. B.C. 1000._ Here properly begins the book of Proverbs, as the title of this chapter tells us; what hath been delivered hitherto being rather a preface, or introduction, to the work; to aw...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Through the whole of the Proverbs, we are to look for somewhat beyond the first sense the passage may imply, and this we shall find to be Christ. He is the Wisdom so often spoken of in this book....

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