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Verse Proverbs 8:15. _BY ME KINGS REIGN_] Every wise and prudent king
is such through the influence of Divine wisdom. And just laws and
their righteous administration come from this source. In this an...
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Not only the common life of common men, but the exercise of the
highest sovereignty, must have this Wisdom as its ground. Compare with
this passage Proverbs 8:15 the teaching of 1 Kings 3:5. The word...
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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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BY ME KINGS REIGN. See Psalms 75:6; Psalms 75:7; Daniel 2:21; Daniel
2:47; Ro
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_kings reign_ If wisdom be needed for the conduct of common life, much
more is it needed, and no less does it avail for the discharge of the
highest official duties. Comp. 1 Kings 3:5-12....
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BY ME KINGS REIGN— All authority and power come from God; and all
those who are established over others have received from the author of
this wisdom all their superiority. Whether God gives a prince i...
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TEXT Proverbs 8:12-21
12.
I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling,
And find out knowledge and discretion.
13.
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil:
Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,
And the...
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By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
BY ME KINGS REIGN, AND PRINCES DECREE JUSTICE - (; ; Daniel 4:26; .)
If even "kings" owe their...
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8:15 rulers (h-6) Or 'ministers [of state],' as Judges 5:3 ; Psalms
2:2 ....
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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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Solomon, who wrote the Book of Proverbs, was a king. He knew that he
was responsible for many people. When he was young, he wanted to be a
good king. He studied wisdom so that he would rule wisely. Al...
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PRINCES. — Literally, _men of weight,_ or, _importance._...
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בִּ֭י מְלָכִ֣ים יִמְלֹ֑כוּ וְ֝
רֹוזְנִ֗ים יְחֹ֣קְקוּ...
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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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“BETTER THAN GOLD”
Proverbs 8:1-21
This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble
matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that
the Preacher had become a Pr...
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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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By me (f) kings reign, and princes decree justice.
(f) By which he declares that honours, dignities or riches do not come
from man's wisdom or industry, but by the providence of God....
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_Things. Power and knowledge are the gift of the Almighty, Romans xii.
1. A prince who resembles God the most, is his best present. (Pliny in
Trajan)_...
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By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and
nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Reader! do pause over these verses, and in the midst of admiring and
adoring Christ in...
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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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BY ME KINGS REIGN,.... Christ is the Prince of the kings of the earth,
the King of kings, and Lord of lords; they are made kings by him, and
are under him; he sets them up, and deposes them at pleasur...
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_By me kings reign, and princes decree justice._
Ver. 15. _By me kings reign._] How, then, can the schoolmen defend
Thomas Aquinas in that paradox, _Dominium et praelatio introducta sunt
ex iure huma...
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_Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom_ Hebrew, ותושׁיה, _and
essence_, that is, all solid, substantial, and useful wisdom is
natural and essential to me. _I am understanding_ By my nature and
essence. Or...
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By Me kings reign, making use of wisdom in their rule, and princes
decree justice, for its full and proper administration is possible
only by means of the knowledge from on high....
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OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM.
The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....
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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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12-21 Wisdom, here is Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge; it is Christ in the word, and Christ in the heart; not
only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. All...
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BY ME KINGS REIGN: either,
1. They get their kingdom by mine appointment and providence. Or
rather,
2. They rule their kingdoms wisely, and justly, and happily, by my
counsel and assistance; for thi...
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3). WISDOM HATES EVIL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR BUT ENABLES JUST
GOVERNMENT FROM THOSE WHO LOVE HER (PROVERBS 8:13).
This subsection which majors on wisdom's role in ensuring just
government where she i...
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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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_By Me kings reign._
CHRISTIAN LOYALTY
I. The special cause that we have for increased thankfulness to God.
1. We ought to be thankful for any event which tends to secure the
blessings of peace to...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:14 Wisdom can give the simple person the
same INSIGHT used by KINGS and RULERS when they GOVERN nations...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 8:14_
THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER
I. MORAL WISDOM IS THE STRENGTH OF KINGS. “I have strength; by me
kings rule.” There is a kind of strength in all wisdom. T...
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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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1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Kings 10:9; 1 Kings 3:28; 1 Kings 3:9; 1 Kings
5:7
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By me — They rule their kingdoms wisely and justly, by my counsel
and assistance. Their injustice is from themselves, but all the good
they do, they owe to my conduct....