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Verse Proverbs 26:11. _AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT_] 2 Peter 2:22....
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CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD
Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different
words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which
signifies weakness....
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THE BOOK OF FOOLS. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets
dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2). The text is unusually
corrupt and defective.
PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...
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AS. DOG, &C. Quoted in 2 Peter 2:22.
RETURNETH. repeateth. Illustrations: Pharaoh (Exodus 9:27); Ahab (1
Kings 21:27; 1 Kings 22:6
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So _a fool returneth to_ Rather, _So is_ A FOOL THAT REPEATETH, R.V.;
_iterat_, Vulg. The Heb. word is not the same as in the first clause
of the verse. Comp. on the proverb 2 Peter 2:22.
Proverbs 26...
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TEXT Proverbs 26:9-19
9.
As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
10.
As an archer that woundeth all,
So is he that hireth a fool and he that...
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT - quoted in , and so stamped with
inspired authority. As a dog swallows again that which he has v...
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FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS
1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 26
V1 Snow should not fall in summer.
Rain should not fall during the harvest....
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You cannot cure a fool. A fool is an evil person. He will repeat his
evil behaviour. This is terrible. You cannot change this man. Only God
can stop the fool’s evil behaviour.
A fool is not like a si...
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SO A FOOL RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY. — Though he knows it to be folly,
and ruinous to him: but vice has become to him a second nature, and he
cannot, even if he would, escape from it. This is especially...
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כְּ֭ כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל ־קֵאֹ֑ו
כְּ֝סִ֗יל שֹׁונֶ
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CHAPTER 27
THE FOOL
"As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for
a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...
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Verse Proverbs 26:2. Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is
unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm.
Verses Proverbs 26:3. In this group of proverbs the fool is the
subject. The...
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_Dog. This is the only animal which is known to do so. St. Peter uses
this comparison to deter any from renouncing the faith; as the Fathers
do, to shew the misery attending a relapse. Septuagint here...
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The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and
rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
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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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AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT,.... Who being sick with what he has
eaten, casts it up again, and afterwards returns unto it and licks it
up;
[SO] A FOOL RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY, or "repeats" a it, t...
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.
Ver. 11. _As a dog returneth to his vomit._] A homely comparison,
able to make a true Christian ready to lay up all, but good enou...
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CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly,
repeating it again and again, not aware of the loathsomeness of his
action. cf Proverbs 2 Peter 2:22....
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THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the
work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to
the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....
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RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY:
_ Heb._ iterateth his folly...
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AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT, to lick up that which he had lately
vomited, forgetting how burdensome and vexatious it was to him, SO A
FOOL RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY; such like is the impudence and ma...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two
ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and
hear mor...
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Proverbs 26:1. _As snow in summer,_ which beats down the fruits; _and
as rain in harvest,_ which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is
honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...
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_As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly._
THE ACCUSTOMED COURSE RESUMED
Dost thou ever raise thy little dam across the streamlet, and think to
dry the bed below? Hast thou...
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_A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
fool’s back._
ASPECTS OF A FOOL
Sin is folly. It sacrifices the spiritual for the material, the
temporal for the eternal, the pure joys...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 26:3. To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned
respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembered that the
Eastern ass is often quite as spirited an...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 26:1
Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception,
perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
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Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening.
The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to
any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...
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2 Peter 2:22; Exodus 8:15; Matthew 12:45...