Proverbs 2:1
HIDE] i.e. as a treasure.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIDE] i.e. as a treasure.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEARCH FOR WISDOM 1-4. The condition which must be fulfilled. Spinoza said, 'The effort to understand is the first and sole basis of virtue.'... [ Continue Reading ]
The HEART in OT. is the seat of the intellect.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wealth was hoarded in the shape of gold and jewels. In times of peril this was buried (Genesis 43:23; Job 3:21; Jeremiah 41:8; Matthew 13:44). Hence the suspicion with which Orientals have often regarded modern explorers. 5-8. The result. It brings us into relation with Him who is the only source o... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUND WISDOM] read, 'deliverances.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS SAINTS] read, 'His pious' or 'loving ones'; those who love and are beloved by Him (Psalms 12:1; Psalms 30:4; Psalms 31:23). 9-19. A further result. It saves from the seductions of bad men and women.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN] RV 'for.' It becomes part of his very mind. 16-18. The stress laid in these Chapter s on sensual vice proves that the evil was a flagrant one. The population was drawn to the great towns where such temptations are common. The STRANGE WOMAN (Proverbs 22:14) was not a foreigner but an adulteres... [ Continue Reading ]
The 'friend of her youth' (RV) is her husband (Jeremiah 3:2). THE COVENANT OF HER GOD] Though there was perhaps no religious ceremony, the marriage relation was a religious one (Exodus 20:14; Malachi 2:14).... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'For her house leads down unto Death, And her paths unto the Shades.' She and her guests are on their way to that under-world which is tenanted by the Shades, the disembodied, shadow-like, hopeless dead (Proverbs 9:18). The ancient idea of a future existence, not worthy of the name of existe... [ Continue Reading ]