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Verse Proverbs 8:3. _SHE CRIETH AT THE GATES_] This might be well
applied to the preaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles, and their
faithful successors in the Christian ministry. He went to the
_t...
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The full enumeration of localities points to the publicity and
openness of Wisdom’s teaching (see Proverbs 1:20 note), as
contrasted with the stealth and secrecy and darkness which shroud the
harlot’s...
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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_
2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12)
3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22)
4. The renewed appeal ...
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PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at
once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The
series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a
profoun...
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DOORS. entrances....
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_she crieth_ The R.V. again preserves the order of the Heb., and puts
the words SHE CRIETH ALOUD at the end of the verse.
_the gates_ See Proverbs 1:21, note.
Proverbs 8:4. _The persons whom she add...
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Proverbs 8:1. _The call of Wisdom_. Comp. Proverbs 1:20-21....
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CHAPTER 8
TEXT Proverbs 8:1-11
1.
Doth not wisdom cry,
And understanding put forth her voice?
2.
On the top of high places by the way,
Where the paths meet, she standeth;
3.
Beside the gates,...
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She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in
at the doors.
SHE CRIETH AT THE GATES (HEBREW, AT THE HAND OF THE GATES), AT THE
ENTRY OF THE CITY, AT THE COMING IN AT THE DOORS...
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WISDOM'S CRY
Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places
where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the
excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 8
V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out.
The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
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The evil woman (in Proverbs 7:12) went everywhere. Wisdom is also
everywhere. Wherever people are, Wisdom is there. (Wisdom is like a
woman.) She is waiting to advise them. She wants to help them. She...
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לְ יַד ־שְׁעָרִ֥ים לְ פִי ־קָ֑רֶת
מְבֹ֖וא
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CHAPTER 9
THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR
"Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1
In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn.
This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
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“BETTER THAN GOLD”
Proverbs 8:1-21
This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble
matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that
the Preacher had become a Pr...
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The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two
discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes
up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
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_Doors. Amid disputants, whose eagerness ought to convince us of the
preference due to wisdom over all terrestrial concerns, ver. 10._...
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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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SHE CRIETH AT THE GATES,.... Of the temple, or of the city, where the
courts of judicature were, and persons met on civil accounts; and
where people were continually passing and repassing;
AT THE ENT...
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She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at
the doors.
Ver. 3. _At the entry of the city._] Heb., At the mouth; for as words
go out of the mouth, so do men out of the city;...
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_She standeth in the top of high places_ Where she may be best seen
and heard; not in corners, and in the dark, as the harlot did; _by the
way in the places of the paths_ Where many paths meet, where...
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She crieth at the gates, standing where the roads converge and many
people come together, AT THE ENTRY OF THE CITY, AT THE COMING IN AT
THE DOORS, at the outside of the gateway, where multitudes were...
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OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM.
The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....
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To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the
Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not
the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
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1-11 The will of God is made known by the works of creation, and by
the consciences of men, but more clearly by Moses and the prophets.
The chief difficulty is to get men to attend to instruction. Yet...
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AT THE GATES; the places of judgment, and of the confluence of people.
At the entry of the city, to invite passengers at their first coming,
and to conduct them to her house. AT THE COMING IN AT THE D...
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Proverbs 8:3 out H7442 (H8799) by H3027 gates H8179 entry H6310 city
H7176 entrance H3996 doors H6607...
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1). WISDOM CALLS ON MEN TO HEAR HER (PROVERBS 8:1).
Wisdom had been defined for us earlier in the Prologue. She is based
on ‘the fear of YHWH' (Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 2:5;...
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CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks
to men.
CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ).
CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be
preferred above a...
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Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the
harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed
in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PLACES OF THE PATHS “in the midst of the highways.” “These ways
are roads, solitary paths, not streets in the city, and the
delineation proceeds in such an order as to exhibit Wisdom;...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 8:1
14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her
excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange
woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
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In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And
because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have
even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
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Acts 5:20; John 18:20; Luke 14:21; Matthew 22:9...
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Gates — The places of judgment, and of the confluence of people. The
entry — To invite passengers at their first coming and to conduct
them to her house. The doors — Of her house....