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CHAPTER XXVIII
_The timidity of the wicked. Quick succession in the government_
_of a country is a punishment to the land. Of the poor who_
_oppress the poor. The upright poor man is preferable to...
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CHAPTER 28 WARNINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
The wicked is a coward; the righteous man, because he trusteth in the
Lord and knows the Lord is on his side, is as bold as a lion. It is
the conscience...
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SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 28 F. In general character this division
resembles Section II., consisting chiefly of antithetic couplets.
PROVERBS 28:2 B. The text is uncertain, and various renderings are...
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THE WICKED FLEE, &C.. A lawIess one flees. Illustrations: Adam
(Genesis 3:8); Joseph's brethren (Genesis 50:15); the Jews (Leviticus
26:36); Ahab ...
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CHAPTER 28
TEXT Proverbs 28:1-9
1.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a
lion.
2.
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof;
But by men of under...
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a
lion.
THE WICKED FLEE (SINGULAR NOUN WITH PLURAL VERB: THEY ALL FLEE AS ONE
MAN) WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH - through the stings of c...
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OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE
2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period
described in 2K15....
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A wicked man has a bad conscience. And he does not trust God. So a
wicked man has no hope for the future. And he is afraid of many
things.
But the good man has a good conscience. He trusts God. The g...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 28
V1 A wicked person runs away, even if nobody is chasing him.
But good people are as bold as lions....
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XXVIII
(1) THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH. — Comp. the curse
pronounced upon Israel for disobedience (Leviticus 26:17; Leviticus
26:36).
THE RIGHTEOUS ARE BOLD AS A LION. — Comp. Leviticus 26:
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נָ֣סוּ וְ אֵין ־רֹדֵ֣ף רָשָׁ֑ע וְ֝
צַדִּיקִ֗י
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CHAPTER 29
AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT
"He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso
confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13
"Happy is the man that feareth a...
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Verse Proverbs 28:2. "The transgression of a land" must be understood
as the opposite of the "state shall be prolonged." Then the proverb
means that a multiplicity of princes is an evil, but men of
un...
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The wicked (a) flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold
as a lion.
(a) Because their own conscience accuses them....
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_Pursueth. "A crime is its own punishment." (Seneca, ep. 93.)
(Leviticus xxvi. 36.) --- Dread. Of any thing terrestrial, as long as
the object of his love is not attacked, Romans viii. 35._...
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CONTENTS.
The wise man is prosecuting the same subjects in this chapter as in
the preceding. By various similitudes he teacheth the blessedness of
wisdom's ways, and the awful termination of a contra...
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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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THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH,.... Through the terrors of a
guilty conscience, as in Cain and others; who fear where no immediate
cause of fear is, are frightened with their own shadows; and as...
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a
lion.
Ver. 1. _The wicked fly when none pursueth._] None but their own
consciences. _Facti sunt a corde suo fugitivi,_ as Tertull...
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_The wicked flee when no man pursueth_ Because a consciousness of
their guilt excites in them a continual expectation and dread of God's
judgments; _but the righteous are bold as a lion_ Are courageou...
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth, their bad conscience making them
timid; BUT THE RIGHTEOUS, filled with the consciousness of their
uprightness and therefore possessing a good conscience, ARE BOLD...
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPIETY...
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IF we HAVE SEEN in chapter 27 the blessing of God and refuge in the
sanctuary, chapter 28, a fourth section. brings our feet abruptly back
to the wilderness path, where walk and ways must be tested by...
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 28 The character of the righteous and of the wicked,
with the blessed fruits of integrity, and evil effects of sin,
PROVERBS 28:11. The evil of concealing and blessedness of confessin...
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Proverbs 28:1 wicked H7563 flee H5127 (H8804) pursues H7291 (H8802)
righteous H6662 bold H982 (H8799) lion...
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Proverbs 28:2. _By a man of understanding the state shall be
prolonged._ Who can value the Samuels in Israel; the Gracchuses in
Rome; the Walpoles, the Chathams in England? In Lord Chatham's time it
w...
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_The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a
lion._
CHRISTIAN BOLDNESS
In all ages courage has been regarded as a mark of honour and
magnanimity, and cowardice has been cons...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 28:1. FOR THE TRANSGRESSION, etc. Or, “_In the
rebellion_.” “For this use of the word transgression in the sense
of _revolt_, compare the verb employed in this sense in 2 Kin...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is still part of the Hezekiah collection, and not a new
series by another author. It may be regarded as describing the various
destinies of the powerful and the weak, the sinn...
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Twenty-eight:
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as bold as
a lion (Proverbs 28:1).
The contrast of the wicked and the righteous. We had an awful lot of
that early in the pr...
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1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Acts
14:3;
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DIVINE CONTRASTS
Proverbs 28:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have another one of Solomon's messages which God gave to him. We
will bring out several statements in the beginning of the chapter.
1. A CONTRAS...