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Verse Proverbs 4:4. _HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, AND SAID_] Open thy heart to
receive my instructions-receive them with affection; when heard,
retain and practise them; and thou shalt live-the great purpose of...
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The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father.
Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles
29:17;...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_
2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10)
3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
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KEEP. Take heed to.
LIVE: i.e. live again, in resurrection life. See note on Leviticus
18:5. Earthly life could he enjoyed without keeping commandments....
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_he taught me also_ Rather, AND HE TAUGHT ME, R.V....
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Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9
Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone
of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends
Wisdom to his scholars...
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CHAPTER 4
TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9
1.
Hear my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2.
For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my law.
3.
For I was a son unto my...
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He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.
HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, SAID UNTO ME, LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS:
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIV...
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ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS
In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his
instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought
valuable save that which was handed do...
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This poem is not just about Solomon’s family. It is about all
families. It tells us that a father should teach his son. When he
grows older, the son should teach his own children.
Solomon’s family wa...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 4
V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction.
As you listen to me, you will understand more....
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The grandfather began his lessons in the same way as the poet. The
grandfather also emphasised that the lesson was important.
Today, many people say that things are important. A salesman will say
tha...
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וַ יֹּרֵ֗נִי וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר לִ֗י
יִֽתְמָךְ ־דְּב
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CHAPTER 5
EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT
"Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth.
"He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4
THIS chapter begins with a...
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THE COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE.
Proverbs 3:27-35; Proverbs 4:1-9
Here are many duties! _Be generous!_ Of course we must discriminate-
_to whom it is due;_ and we must be prudent- _when it is in the powe...
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In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature
of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are
exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his
own...
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He (b) taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my
words: keep my commandments, and live.
(b) Meaning, David his father....
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_He. Hebrew is masculine. (Calmet) --- As David instructed his son, so
the latter teaches all how they may learn wisdom. (Worthington) _...
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For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my
mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my
words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get unde...
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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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HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, AND SAID UNTO ME,.... The Targum is,
"they taught me,''
his father and his mother; and so the Septuagint version,
"who said and taught me;''
and the Arabic version,
"they both...
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He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.
Ver. 4. _He taught me also._] As Cato taught his own children, and
took it for no disgrace, thoug...
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_He taught me also, and said unto me_ The following verses, at least
as far as the tenth, are represented as containing the words of David,
Solomon's father, that the name of so great a king, and so h...
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He taught me also and said unto me, David thus proving himself a wise
teacher, LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS, holding them fast for the
purpose of following them always; KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND LIV...
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ADMONITIONS CONCERNING WISDOM...
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1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though
instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome.
Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men,
in ev...
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SAID UNTO ME: the following verses, at least as far as the 10th verse,
are propounded as the words of David, that the name of so great a king
and holy a prophet might add the more authority and effica...
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Proverbs 4:4 taught H3384 (H8686) said H559 (H8799) heart H3820 retain
H8551 (H8799) words H1697 Keep...
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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCE OF WHAT HIS FATHER HAD TAUGHT HIM AS
‘A SON' (PROVERBS 4:3).
Solomon now stresses that his wisdom has partly come down to him from
his father. This greatly added to it...
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CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that
which recommends us to God, which be...
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Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash,
cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the
domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his
ch...
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_For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of
my mother._
THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF SOLOMON
Solomon in these words gives us two pieces of his own private history,
in order to a...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 4:3 WHEN I WAS A SON WITH MY FATHER. The
father shows he can identify with his sons. He, too, was once young
and under the instruction of a father. He also implies that wisdo...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 4:2. DOCTRINE, Literally something received, handed over; the
author so describes it because he received it from his father. The
Septuagint and the Vulgate translate by DONU...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 4:1
7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group
of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my
children," and which occurs again...
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Continuing to his son.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you
might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake
my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
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1 Chronicles 22:11; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15;...
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SACRED EXHORTATIONS
Proverbs 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to
say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to
their fath...
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Said — The following verses, at least as far as the tenth verse, are
the words of David....