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Verse Proverbs 20:6. _MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM_] _Many men merciful ben
clepid: a_ _feithful man forsoth, who schal finde? _- Old MS. Bible....
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GOODNESS - With the special sense of bounty, beneficence. Contrast
promise and performance. People boast of their liberality, yet we look
in vain for the fulfillment of actual obligations....
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CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT
Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found
mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if
applied to Solomon....
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PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs
20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self
characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought.
P...
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MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.
EVERY ONE. Hebrew. _'Ish 'ish._ App-14.
HIS OWN GOODNESS. Illustrations: Absalom (2 Samuel 15:4); Jehu (2
Kings 10:16; 2 Kings 10:31); Scribes, &c. ...
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_goodness_ i.e. BOUNTY, A.V. marg., or KINDNESS, R.V. Fair promises
are common, but faithful performance of them is rare. Comp. 2Co 8:11;
2 Corinthians 9:4.
The first clause of the verse is otherwise...
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DISCOURSE: 801
TRUE PIETY IS RARE
Proverbs 20:6. _Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness; but
a faithful man who can find?_
IF we were to apply to every individual of mankind for his own
c...
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MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERY ONE HIS OWN GOODNESS— "Most men are
ready enough to claim to themselves a large share of virtue and piety;
but where is the man of true and undissembled virtue and holines...
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CHAPTER 20
TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10
1.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise,
2.
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
He that provoketh him...
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Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man
who can find?
MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERY ONE HIS OWN GOODNESS - his own
beneficence to others, as the Pharisee did MOST MEN...
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20:6 kindness; (l-9) _ Chesed_ , or 'benevolence.' see ch. 19.22....
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERY ONE HIS OWN GOODNESS. — Will be full of
his benevolent intentions, “but a faithful man,” who carries out
these promises, “who can find?”...
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רָב ־אָדָ֗ם יִ֭קְרָא אִ֣ישׁ חַסְדֹּ֑ו
וְ אִ֥י
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CHAPTER 21
IDLENESS
"After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in
the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4
WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
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SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY
Proverbs 20:1-15
Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains
an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is
entrenched, it mocks at...
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Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one
answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
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_Faithful. Few continue steady to their engagements or friends, whom
they will assist to a certain point. In God these two virtues always
go together, Psalm lxxxiv. 11. But they are rarely found in me...
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It i...
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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...
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MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERYONE HIS OWN GOODNESS,.... As the Pharisee
did, in Luke 18:11; and as the Pharisees in common did; who did all
their works to be seen of men, and made clean the outside of t...
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Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man
who can find?
Ver. 6. _Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness._] As the
kings of Egypt would needs be called Eυεργεται...
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_Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness_ “Most men are
ready enough to claim to themselves a large share of piety and
virtue;” _but a faithful man who can find?_ “Where is that man of
true...
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V. 6. MOST MEN WILL PROCLAIM EVERY ONE HIS OWN GOODNESS, literally,
"Many a man meets a man of his pleasantness," for an outward show of
pleasantness, an amiable exterior, is not unusual; BUT A FAITHF...
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GOODNESS:
Or, bounty...
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Most men are forward to profess religion, and speak of their own good
deeds; but a faithful man, one who is indeed what he seemeth and
professeth himself to be, WHO CAN FIND? there are but few such to...
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Proverbs 20:6 Most H7230 men H120 proclaim H7121 (H8799) each H376
goodness H2617 find H4672 (H8799) faithful...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be
sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
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Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book
of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with
harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
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_Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness; but a faithful
man, who can find?_
ON GOODNESS AND FIDELITY
I. What are we to understand by “goodness” and a “faithful
man”?--Goodness often means...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much
of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is
merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual re...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 20:1
WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from
the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing
what men do under its influence. Thus...
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Into chapter 20.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1).
He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next
week,...
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2 Corinthians 12:11; Ecclesiastes 7:28; Jeremiah 5:1; John 1:47;...