CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of the sluggard; and in the ninth we have seen in passing that diligence in work is enjoined by the teac... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is His delight."- Proverbs 11:1 "Diverse weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomi... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Proverbs 4:1 AFTER the lengthened contrast between the vicious woman and Wisdom in Chapter s 7 and 8, the introduction of the book closes with a little picture which is inte... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Proverbs 4:1 AFTER the lengthened contrast between the vicious woman and Wisdom in Chapter s 7 and 8, the introduction of the book closes with a little picture which is inte... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is His delight."- Proverbs 11:1 "Diverse weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomi... [ Continue Reading ]