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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be
fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached
and each has a message by itself. To int...
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PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM.
Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular
collection.
The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
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THEN, &C. Illustration: Israel (Deuteronomy 1:45; Deuteronomy 1:46).
See also Isaiah 1:15.Jeremiah 11:11.
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_early_ Rather, EARNESTLY, or DILIGENTLY, R.V. text. The rendering
_early_is due to the doubtful connection (see Bp Perowne on Psalms
63:1) of the Heb. word with _the dawn_(_mane consurgent_, Vulg.)....
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DISCOURSE: 753
THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS
Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the
streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openi...
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TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33
20.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street;
She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21.
She crieth in the chief place of concourse;
At the entrance of the gates,
In the city...
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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek
me early, but they shall not find me:
THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER - (.) God saith,
it is true, "Whosoeve...
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1:28 early, (d-17) Or 'earnestly,' as Job 8:5 ....
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The chapter falls into three principal divisions.
1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book,
which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's
knowledge. I...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought
peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
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She obtains judgement. Their punishment is severe. This is because
they refused wisdom.
They did evil things. Now they will suffer a terrible punishment.
Their punishment is sudden, like a storm. It...
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THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME. — They did not call upon Him in an
“acceptable time,” in “a day of salvation” (Isaiah 49:8),
while He was “near” (Isaiah 55:6); so at last the master of the
house has “ri...
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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 understa...
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THE CALL OF WISDOM
Proverbs 1:20-33
The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of
the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our
Lord, who, as the Word o...
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The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people.
Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God;
intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine
wisdom;...
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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek
me early, but they shall not (x) find me:
(x) Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of
their own grief....
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_Find me. Because their repentance was false, like that of Antiochus,
2 Machabees ix. 13., and Psalm xi. 4. (Calmet)_...
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:
in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
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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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THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER,.... As he called
them, and they refused to answer to his call, Proverbs 1:24; so it was
just in him to return no answer to them, when they called o...
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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek
me early, but they shall not find me:
Ver. 28. _Then shall they call, &c._] This was Saul's misery; - The
Philistines are upon me,...
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_Because I have called_, &c. By my ministers, my judgments, the
motions of my Spirit, and your own consciences; _and ye refused_ To
obey my call; _I have stretched out my hand_ Offering mercy and grac...
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Then shall they call upon Me, praying for wisdom to meet the emergency
in which they would find themselves, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER; THEY SHALL
SEEK ME EARLY, with the rising of the dawn, with great dil...
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THE INVITATION OF WISDOM...
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20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the
temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken
to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...
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EARLY; or, _in the morning_, as the word properly signifies, and is
here rendered by others, as soon as their calamity comes; or rather,
with great diligence and fervency, as this phrase commonly sign...
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Proverbs 1:28 call H7121 (H8799) answer H6030 (H8799) diligently H7836
(H8762) find H4672 (H8799)...
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DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE
FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND
WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
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WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT TO BE HEARD, LONGING FOR RESPONSE,
PROMISING INCULCATION OF HER OWN SPIRIT, AND WARNING OF THE
CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (PROVERBS 1:20).
We have here the first of the w...
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But If They Refuse To Respond To Wisdom's Voice And Fail To Choose The
Fear Of YHWH Then One Day, When They Suffer The Consequences Of Their
Refusal As They Surely Will, Wisdom Will Mock At Them, And...
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Proverbs 1:24
I. The person represented as speaking these very solemn and terrible
words is that same wisdom which is represented in the verses before
the text as making most gracious offers to all wh...
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Proverbs 1:28
Christ's Gospel gives out the forgiveness of sins; and as this is its
very essence, so also in what we read connected with Christ's Gospel,
the tone of encouragement, of mercy, of loving...
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Proverbs 1:24.
The words of the text are awful, but not hopeless; they pronounce
God's judgment on the finally impenitent; the penitent they but
awaken, that they may "hear the voice of the Son of Go...
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CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain
ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ).
CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
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Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes.
The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short
maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
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_Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not answer._
SOWING DISOBEDIENCE, REAPING JUDGMENT
One of the marvellous reasonings of the Judge with the criminal is
recorded here.
I. God in mercy visits...
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_Because I have called, and ye refused._
THE REJECTED CALL OF WISDOM
I. The manner in which it has called upon you--in which the appeals of
Wisdom and of religion have been made. In the manner, the...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a
woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools
to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew.
PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.”
PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 1:1
PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION.
The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to
verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first
six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times
write a preface to their work.
The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
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Ezekiel 8:18; Genesis 6:3; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 1:15;...
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WISDOM'S CALL
Proverbs 1:20
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone
among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered
circles, whe...
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Early — With diligence and fervency....