Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a (a) father, and attend to know understanding.
(a) He speaks this as a preacher and minister which is as a father to the people, (Proverbs 2:8).
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a (a) father, and attend to know understanding.
(a) He speaks this as a preacher and minister which is as a father to the people, (Proverbs 2:8).
CHAPTER IV _The preceptor calls his pupils, and tells them how himself was_ _educated_, 1-4; _specifies the teachings he received_, 5-19; _and exhorts his pupil to persevere in well-doing, and to...
The words “ye children” indicate as usual a new section returning, after the break of Proverbs 3:27, to the old strain of fatherly counsel....
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)...
CHILDREN. sons. INSTRUCTION. correction, or admonition. KNOW UNDERSTANDING. learn discernment....
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...
HEAR, YE CHILDREN— Solomon here proposes himself as an example of docility; but in such a manner, that he refers all the advantages of his education to the early impressions which he received from his...
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...
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. Proverbs 4:1.-The young are urged by Solomon, as he was urged by his father, to get wisdom as the principal thing,...
4:1 intelligence; (e-13) Or 'discernment,' as ch. 3.5....
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...
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...
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....
The poem begins with commands to listen. The father will teach a valuable lesson to his sons....
IV. (g)_ Seventh Discourse: — Recollections of his Father’s Instructions_ (Proverbs 4:1 to Proverbs 5:6). (1) A FATHER. — That is, of me, your teacher....
שִׁמְע֣וּ בָ֭נִים מ֣וּסַר אָ֑ב וְ֝ הַקְשִׁ֗יבוּ...
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...
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...
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...
_Father. He shews the greatest respect for his parents, ver. 3. (Calmet)_...
CONTENTS. This chapter hath much the same tendency as the former. It contains an exhortation to the pursuit of wisdom. And towards the close of the Chapter the sad effects of a contrary study is poin...
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...
HEAR, YE CHILDREN, THE INSTRUCTION OF A FATHER,.... Either of God their father, as Gersom interprets it; or rather of Solomon their father: and so he recommends his instruction from the relation he st...
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. Ver. 1. _Hear, ye children._] _Audite senem, iuvenes, quem iuvenem senes audierunt:_ Hear me, now an old man, O ye yo...
_Hear, &c., the instruction of a father_ Of me, who have paternal authority over you, and great affection for you. _For I give you, good doctrine_ Not vain or foolish, much less false or pernicious co...
ADMONITIONS CONCERNING WISDOM...
Hear, ye children, the affectionate address being intended to arouse attention in his readers, THE INSTRUCTION OF A FATHER, one who, for that reason, had the experience needed to teach others, AND ATT...
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...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 4 Solomon showeth the excellency of his doctrine, PROVERBS 4:1. His counsel to get wisdom, PROVERBS 4:5,6, and understanding, PROVERBS 4:7. The honour which cometh thereby,...
Proverbs 4:1 Hear H8085 (H8798) children H1121 instruction H4148 father H1 attention H7181 (H8685) know H3045 ...
A GENERAL APPEAL TO ‘SONS' (PROVERBS 4:1). The change from ‘my son' to ‘sons', which occurs only here as an opening address, may well have taken place because of Solomon's reference in Proverbs 4:3 to...
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...
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...
_The instruction of a father._ A RELIGIOUS HOME I. The love of a religious home. Two kinds of love for the offspring. 1. The natural love. 2. The spiritual love, which has respect to the spiritual...
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...
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; Hebrews 2:1; Proverbs 1:8;...
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...
A father — Of me, who have paternal authority over you and affection for you....