George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 17:1
Victims. Of which part was used for a feast, chap. vii. 14. (Calmet) --- Septuagint add, "of many goods, and unjust victims." (Haydock)
Victims. Of which part was used for a feast, chap. vii. 14. (Calmet) --- Septuagint add, "of many goods, and unjust victims." (Haydock)
CHAPTER XVII _Contentment. The wise servant. The Lord tries the heart._ _Children a crown to their parents. We should hide our_ _neighbour's faults. The poor should not be despised._ _Litigations...
SACRIFICES - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices”...
CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs...
PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes (Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test o...
BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11. SACRIFICES. slain beasts. Hebrew. _zebach._ App-43....
_sacrifices with strife_ Lit. SACRIFICES OF STRIFE, but better rendered, GOOD CHEER WITH STRIFE, A.V. marg.; or, FEASTING WITH STRIFE, R.V. text. This rendering, however, may be arrived at in either o...
A DRY MORSEL— _Bread with pulse,_ or _husks._ Bochart and Houbigant. This was the food of meaner persons; whence Horace says, Epist. 1: lib. 2: line 123. _Vivit siliquis et pane secundo:_ Lives on c...
CHAPTER 17 TEXT Proverbs 17:1-10 1. Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife. 2. A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that ca...
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL - without butter or oil (). THAN A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES - victims, part o...
17:1 feasting (h-14) Lit. 'sacrifices,' _ Zevach_ . see Note, Deuteronomy 12:21 ....
1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the festal meal which followed a sacrifice (Proverbs 7:14) if it was accompanied with a quarrel. 'A little with quiet is the only diet...
Dry bread is not a good meal. We might prefer the rich food at a party. But a quiet place is better than a place where people argue. A party can be noisy and unpleasant. Any arguments will upset peop...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 17 V1 One man eats dry bread in a calm and quiet place. But that man’s meal is better than the food at a party where there are arguments....
XVII. (1) A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES. — Possibly the same as the “peace offerings” of Proverbs 7:14 (where see note). The consumption of these may have at times degenerated into licence (comp. 1 Samu...
טֹ֤וב פַּ֣ת חֲ֭רֵבָה וְ שַׁלְוָה ־בָ֑הּ מִ֝
CHAPTER 18 FRIENDSHIP "A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the margin of the R.V, yields a much better sense than the lo...
Verse Proverbs 17:3. Two important thoughts are suggested by this proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that of God. Dross in metal may be discovered and expurged by fire, b...
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than an house full of (a) sacrifices [with] strife. (a) For where there were many sacrifices, there were many portions given to the people, with which...
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance amon...
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...
BETTER [IS] A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH,.... A small quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies; which has been long broken off, and become "dry" x; a dry crust of b...
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife. Ver. 1. _Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith._] Though there be not so much as a little v...
_Better is a dry morsel_ “Bread with pulse, or husks,” as Bochart and Houbigant interpret it; which was the food of meaner persons; _and quietness therewith_ Peace, love, and concord among the members...
V. 1. BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL, without even the customary wine or diluted vinegar, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH, harmony among all those at the table, THAN AN HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES, a great amount of the...
SACRIFICES: Or, good cheer...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 17 _Of sacrifices_; of the remainders of sacrifices, of which they used to make feasts; of which SEE POOLE ON "PROVERBS 7:14". Or, _of slain_ beasts, as that word is used, GENESIS 31:...
Proverbs 17:1 Better H2896 dry H2720 morsel H6595 quietness H7962 house H1004 full H4392 feasting H2077 strife H7379
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: About the most satisfactory substitute for wisdom is silence. Discretion of speech is better than fluency of speech. KEY W...
Proverbs 17:1. _Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith._ See Proverbs 15:17. Proverbs 17:3. _The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace_ (or crucible) _for gold._ Silver ores in Mexico are...
_Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife._ THE MAKER AND BREAKER OF A FAMILY’S PEACE Truth sweetens the relations of life; falsehood eats like ru...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 17:1 A poor but loving home is better than a home filled with FEASTING and STRIFE (see Proverbs 5:17).
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 17:1. SACRIFICES, literally _killings_, _i.e._, slain beasts, not necessarily animals killed for sacrifice....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) Better
Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife (Proverbs 17:1). Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in that economy the of the Judai...
Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 7:14;...