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Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
Proverbs 23:16
The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15
receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
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CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in
curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence
of a superior. Warnings against r...
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It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning
against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that
case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what
(_m...
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AT THE LAST IT BITETH, &C.— "Remember that the pleasure will be
attended at last with intolerable pains when it works like so much
poison in thy veins, and casts thee into troubles as keen, and
diseas...
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TEXT Proverbs 23:24-35
24.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
And let her that...
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
STINGETH LIKE AN ADDER - Hebrew, tsip`oniy (H6848); the basilisk
(Bochart); a viper (Maurer)....
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23:32 last (k-3) Or 'in result;' lit. 'in its end.' as ver. 18....
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1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
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אַ֭חֲרִיתֹו כְּ נָחָ֣שׁ יִשָּׁ֑ךְ וּֽ
כְ צִפְ
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CHAPTER 24
EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD
"Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he
will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6
"Withhold not correction from the...
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At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the
Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the
teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
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_Basilisk, ( regulus). Hebrew Tsiphoni, (Haydock) as asp. (Cerastes,
&c.) (Psalm xc. 13.)_...
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be
not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard
and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
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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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AT THE LAST IT BITETH LIKE A SERPENT,.... Though it goes down sweetly,
yet it leaves a sting behind it, intemperately drank; a nausea in the
stomach, a stink in the breath, pains and giddiness in the...
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Ver. 32. _At the last it biteth like a serpent._] Lo, such is the
guilt of sin, such the end and effect of drunkenness - torments her...
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_Look not thou upon the wine_ Earnestly, so as to inflame thine
appetite toward it; in which sense men are forbidden _to look upon a
woman, Job 31:1_; Matthew 5:28. _When it is red_ Which was the colo...
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V. 32. AT THE LAST IT BITETH LIKE A SERPENT, its ruinous and
destructive influence becoming evident afterward, AND STINGETH LIKE AN
ADDER, whose venom had a most deadly effect....
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AN ADDER:
Or, a cockatrice...
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It hurts the body in many respects, impairs the rigour of the mind,
wastes the estate and reputation, wounds the conscience, and, without
repentance, will destroy the soul....
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Proverbs 23:32 last H319 bites H5391 (H8799) serpent H5175 stings
H6567 (H8686) viper H6848
At -...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily
besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
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Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a
princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy
throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
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_They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine._
THE WOES OF THE DRUNKARD
The ugly sketch given here should be enough to warn all young people
against tampering with a vice which...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 23:30. MIXED WINE—_i.e._, wine mixed with strong spices.
PROVERBS 23:31. WHEN IT GIVETH HIS COLOUR, etc., literally, “When it
showeth its eye.” This may refer to its _bright...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 23:1
A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding
chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his
talents had made the guest of kings....
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Now the next three verses are coupled together.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before
thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to
appetite. Be not de...
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Amos 5:19; Amos 9:3; Ecclesiastes 10:8; Exodus 7:12; Exodus 7:5;...