Proverbs 8 - Introduction

A.M. 3004. B.C. 1000.

We may consider this chapter as connected with the preceding, and making one continued discourse. Solomon having represented, in what goes before, the dangerous seductions of pleasure, in the language of an adulterous woman; here he describes Wisdom inviting us to her love, in a noble, grand, elevated discourse, and by magnificent promises of the most solid advantages. She

(1,) commends her doctrine and precepts, Proverbs 8:1.

(2,) She extols her divine and excellent works, Proverbs 8:12.

(3,) She invites to the search of her by the view of the richest recompenses, Proverbs 8:32.