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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_
2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12)
3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22)
4. The renewed appeal ...
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PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at
once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The
series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a
profoun...
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TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36
22.
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,
Before his works of old.
23.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
Before the earth was.
24.
When there...
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Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
NEAR INSTRUCTION - Hebrew, disciplinary instruction: the first step
to wisdom....
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WISDOM'S CRY
Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places
where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the
excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 8
V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out.
The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
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CHAPTER 9
THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR
"Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1
In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn.
This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
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FINDING WISDOM, FINDING LIFE
Proverbs 8:22-36
The world did not come into being by _chance_. It was created by an
intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the
expression of th...
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The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two
discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes
up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
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Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they
that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,...
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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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HEAR INSTRUCTION,.... The instruction of wisdom, the Gospel of Christ;
which instructs men in things relating to God the Father; as that he
is the God and Father of his people, the God of all grace, t...
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Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Ver. 33. _Hear instruction, and be wise._] This way wisdom enters into
the soul. Hear, therefore, for else there is no hope; hear, howsoever.
Augusti...
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_Now therefore hearken_, &c. Seeing I have a true love to you, and
seeing I am so thoroughly acquainted with my Father's mind, and so
excellently qualified to be your Counsellor and Ruler; _hear
instr...
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THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not, rejecting it in
foolish rebellion....
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To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the
Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not
the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
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32-36 Surely we should hearken to Christ's voice with the readiness
of children. Let us all be wise, and not refuse such mercy. Blessed
are those who hear the Saviour's voice, and wait on him with da...
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Or, _do not make it void_ or unprofitable to you by your own sloth or
wilfulness....
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Proverbs 8:33 Hear H8085 (H8798) instruction H4148 wise H2449 (H8798)
disdain H6544 (H8799)
Hear -...
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6). WISDOM BRINGS BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR HER FOR THROUGH HER THEY
FIND LIFE AND COME INTO THE FAVOUR OF GOD (PROVERBS 8:32).
Because her delight was with the sons of men Wisdom calls on men to
lis...
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CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks
to men.
CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ).
CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be
preferred above a...
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Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the
harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed
in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
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_The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way._
WISDOM THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD
Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological
speculations about the origin of things--an id...
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_Hear instruction, and be wise._
MOTIVES FOR HEARING SERMONS
Contempt of God’s Sabbaths and disregard of ministerial instruction
are melancholy characteristics of the age in which we live.
I. The te...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:32 O SONS draws together all of
Wisdom’s paternal appeals to highlight the benefits of wisdom for
faithful covenant living. ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH. Those who
practice w...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 8:36. SINNETH AGAINST, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch,
and Miller.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:32_
EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WI...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 8:1
14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her
excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange
woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
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In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And
because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have
even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
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Acts 7:35; Hebrews 12:25; Isaiah 55:1; Proverbs 1:2; Proverbs 1:21;...