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Verse Proverbs 20:20. _WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER_] Such persons were
put to death under the law; see Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9, and here
it is said, Their _lamp shall be put out_-they shall have no...
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A connecting link between Leviticus 20:9 and Matthew 15:4. The words,
“his lamp shall be put out,” describe the failure of outward
happiness....
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CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT
Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found
mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if
applied to Solomon....
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PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs
20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self
characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought.
P...
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CURSETH. revileth.
LAMP SHALL BE PUT OUT.. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis_ (App-6),
denoting that he shall die childless....
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_obscure darkness_ Better, THE BLACKEST DARKNESS, R.V. Lit. _the
pupil_(of the eye) _of darkness_(comp. "in the pupil of night,"
Proverbs 7:9, and note): i.e. in the darkest part, as the pupil is of
t...
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TEXT Proverbs 20:11-20
11.
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
Jehovah hath made even bot...
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20:20 blackest (e-16) Lit. 'the eyeball of.' see ch. 7.9....
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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We must respect our parents. God orders us to do this. See Deuteronomy
5:16, and Matthew 15:4-6.
The second line of verse 20 means that this man deserves death. A man
who insults his parents deserves...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 20
V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts
at you.
If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....
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HIS LAMP SHALL BE PUT OUT IN OBSCURE DARKNESS. — See above, on
Proverbs 13:9....
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מְ֭קַלֵּל אָבִ֣יו וְ אִמֹּ֑ו
יִֽדְעַ֥ךְ נֵ֝רֹ֗ו _בֶּ_†
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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...
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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 t...
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“THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN”
Proverbs 20:16-30
What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27! We stand like a
row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine
Nature ever bent...
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Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one
answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
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_Lamp. Prosperity, or children._...
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou
shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the
buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER,.... This is dreadful indeed! a
person must be got to a great pitch of wickedness to do this; to curse
his parents, one or other of them, that have been the inst...
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Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness.
Ver. 20. _Whoso curseth his father, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 21:17
_"_ _See Trapp on "_ Mat 15:4 _"_ Parents u...
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V. 20. WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER, in a bold and
blasphemous transgression of the Fourth Commandment, HIS LAMP SHALL BE
PUT OUT IN OBSCURE DARKNESS, the picture being that of hopeless
dest...
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LAMP:
Or, candle...
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OR HIS MOTHER, Heb. _and his mother_; which is used for _or_, EXODUS
12:5 LEVITICUS 6:3, and elsewhere. HIS LAMP; his comfort and
happiness, his name and memory, which are oft compared in Scripture to...
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Proverbs 20:20 curses H7043 (H8764) father H1 mother H517 lamp H5216
out H1846 (H8799) deep H380 ...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be
sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
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Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book
of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with
harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:20 The person who despises parental
authority will eventually face UTTER DARKNESS (compare Exodus 20:12)....
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:20_
AN UNNATURAL CHILD AND A NATURAL LAW
I. AN UNNATURAL CHILD. The ungrateful son or daughter of good parents
is an unnatural being. If experience did not contradict,...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 20:1
WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from
the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing
what men do under its influence. Thus...
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Into chapter 20.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1).
He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next
week,...
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Deuteronomy 27:16; Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:17; Job 18:18; Job 18:5;...
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Lamp — His name and memory shall utterly perish....