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Verse Proverbs 9:4. _WHOSO_ IS _SIMPLE_] Let the young, heedless, and
giddy attend to my teaching.
_HIM THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING_] Literally, _he that wanteth a_
_heart_; who is without _courage_,...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)_
2. The contrast with Folly. (Proverbs 9:13)
Proverbs 9:1. The first section of Proverbs closeth with a contrast of
Wisdom and Folly, both pers...
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PROVERBS 9. THE INVITATIONS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY CONTRASTED. This
section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly
personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by with...
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SIMPLE. See note on Proverbs 1:4.
UNDERSTANDING. Hebrew "heart". Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of
Subject), App-6, for understanding....
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DISCOURSE: 772
WISDOM’S FEAST
Proverbs 9:1. Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her
seven pillars: she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;
she hath also furnished her table...
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WHOSO IS SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER— Wisdom invites the simple,
the ignorant, those who have the innocence and simplicity of children.
See 1 Corinthians 14:20....
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CHAPTER 9
TEXT Proverbs 9:1-9
1.
Wisdom hath builded her house;
She hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2.
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;
She hath also furnished her table:...
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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him,
WHOSO IS SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER: (AS FOR) HIM THAT WANTETH
UNDERSTANDING, SHE SAITH TO HIM....
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9:4 understanding, (f-15) As ch. 6.32; and ver. 16....
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SIMPLE] i.e. inexperienced, easily led, capable of being turned either
way. Hence Folly (Proverbs 9:16) has equal hopes of influencing them....
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THE RIVALS
Folly and Wisdom invite guests to their respective houses. The
consequences of accepting either of the two invitations are described.
We are reminded of the Greek parable, 'The choice of H...
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Wisdom, the woman, chooses her guests carefully. They are not the
guests whom we might select. She does not choose only clever people,
whose conversation will be good. She does not choose only famous...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 9
Solomon’s last, great lesson to his son is almost complete. Perhaps
Solomon paused here. Maybe he thought about whether he had taught
enough...
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WHOSO IS SIMPLE... AS FOR HIM THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING. — So God
does not call many “wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble” (1 Corinthians 1:26); but chooses the “foolish,”
“weak...
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CHAPTER 10
TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY
Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with
Prove
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TWO CONTRASTED INVITATIONS
Proverbs 9:1-18
There is an age-long competition between Wisdom and Folly, Virtue and
Vice. The palace of Wisdom is very attractive-well built and well
furnished. It is...
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The last address is a contrast between wisdom and folly. Each is
personified as a woman calling to youth. Wisdom has builded her house,
and spread her feast in the high places of the city. She calls t...
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Whoever [is] (e) simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that
lacketh understanding, she saith to him,
(e) He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice....
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_One. Simple, but not inconstant, like children, 1 Corinthians xiv.
20. Pleasure addresses the same, (chap. vii. 7.) but for their
destruction. (Calmet)_...
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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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WHOSO [IS] SIMPLE, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER,.... Into Wisdom's house, so
well built and furnished; the church of Christ, as a house of
instruction; a school, where such who are "simple", weak, and fooli...
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Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him,
Ver. 4. _Whoso is simple._] And with it persuadable; that have not yet
contracted that _callum ob...
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_Whoso is simple_ Ignorant, weak, and liable to be deceived, but
willing to learn; _let him turn in hither_ For there is no man so
ignorant but he is welcome to come and receive instruction. By this
m...
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Whoso is simple, inexperienced, not yet acquainted with the dangers
and temptations of life, LET HIM TURN IN HITHER, to partake of
wisdom's banquet; AS FOR HIM THAT WANTETH UNDERSTANDING, that is, who...
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THE BANQUET OF WISDOM...
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1-12 Christ has prepared ordinances to which his people are admitted,
and by which nourishment is given here to those that believe in him,
as well as mansions in heaven hereafter. The ministers of th...
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SIMPLE; ignorant, and weak, and subject to delusion, and willing to
learn; to show that wisdom rejects those scholars who are proud and
self-conceited. UNDERSTANDING, Heb. _heart_, which signifies
und...
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Proverbs 9:4 simple H6612 turn H5493 (H8799) lacks H2638 understanding
H3820 says H559 (H8804)...
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APPEAL TO THE NAIVE AND THOSE LACKING IN UNDERSTANDING (PROVERBS 9:3).
The emphasis now moves to Wisdom's call to the naive, and to ‘those
who are void of understanding', that is, those who have not...
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THE APPEAL OF WOMAN WISDOM TO THE NAIVE (PROVERBS 9:1).
After making full and generous preparations Wisdom calls on the naive
to respond to and partake of her feast. ‘The naive' might be better
transl...
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Proverbs 9:3 , PROVERBS 9:16
I. Choose. Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a reason
for what he does, and has a will in doing it. Be the masters and lords
of the circumstances in which y...
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Proverbs 9:1
The marriage supper for the king's son.
I. The house. The frame is set up from everlasting, well-ordered in
all things, and sure. The tried Foundation is the Lord our
Righteousness. The...
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CONTENTS: Wisdom (Christ) and sin, as rivals for the soul of man.
CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom.
CONCLUSION: Christ and sin are both seeking to have the uppermost
place in the soul of man. We are therefor...
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Proverbs 9:1. _Wisdom hath builded her house._ This chapter opens with
a sublime allegory. We see the princess, the mother of angels and men,
enthroned in her temple, “the church which is the pillar a...
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_Wisdom hath builded her house._
WISDOM’S INVITATION
The Bible is fully of mystery, not merely in its doctrines, but also
in the manner and in the language by which the truths of revelation
are brou...
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_Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither._
THE CHOICE OF WISDOM
Life is reduced to an alternative; there is clearly marked out for us
all, at the beginning of our life, that all is one thing or the...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 9:4 LET HIM (who is simple) TURN IN HERE.
Compare the invitation in Proverbs 8:5....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 9:1. WISDOM, in the plural, as in chap. Proverbs 1:20, to
express excellence and dignity.
PROVERBS 9:2. SHE HATH MINGLED HER WINE. Some commentators understand
the mingling...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 9:1
15. _Fifteenth admonitory discourse, _containing in a parabolic form
an invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1), and that of her rival Folly
(Proverbs 9:13). Th
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Chapter 9 continues in its praise of wisdom.
Wisdom hath built her house, she has hewn out the seven pillars: She
has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; and she has furnished
her table. And...
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Matthew 11:25; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 6:32; Proverbs 8:5; Proverbs
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Simple — Ignorant, and weak....