It is a proverb, is added by St. Jerome, to make the sentence more striking. --- It. He is like a tender plant, (Calmet) or wax, or a new vessel. Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem
Testa diu. (Horace, ep. i. ad Lol.)
--- "Shall wool regain its whiteness after it has been dyed purple?" (St. Jerome, ad Lætam.) --- Hebrew, "initiate a young," &c. Proportion your lessons to his capacity, and make him relish them.
Verse Proverbs 22:6. _TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO_] The Hebrew of this clause is curious: חנך לנער על פי דרכו _chanoch lannaar al pi_ _darco_, "Initiate the child at the opening (the mou...
TRAIN - Initiate, and so, educate. THE WAY HE SHOULD GO - Or, according to the tenor of his way, i. e., the path especially belonging to, especially fitted for, the individual’s character. The prover...
CHAPTER 22 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED Better than great riches, better than silver and gold is a name and loving favor. If a person has riches and a bad name and is not well thought of, he is less honorab...
PROVERBS 22:6. IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO puts more into the Heb. than it contains. It is lit. train up a child in proportion to his way_ i.e._ train him suitably. The moral implication is absent. The st...
TRAIN UP. Hedge in: i.e. straiten him in, as cattle are guided. IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO. concerning his way. Hebrew at the mouth of his way: "mouth" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjun...
_in the way he should go_ Lit. ACCORDING TO HIS WAY. The injunction contemplates not only the broad principles of education, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, which are the same for all, but t...
TRAIN UP A CHILD— _Initiate, instruct, catechise; lay down the first rudiments._ Houbigant. Horace says remarkably, (considering him as under the Heathen dispensation,) _———Nunc adbibe puro,_ &c. Eph...
CHAPTER 22 TEXT Proverbs 22:1-10 1. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold, 2. The rich and poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker o...
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. TRAIN UP (LITERALLY, INITIATE: DEDICATE, AS A HOUSE, NUMBERS 7:10-4 ; OR TEMPLE 1 KINGS 8:63 : Hebrew, chan...
22:6 tenor (c-8) Or 'at the entry.'...
1. To be regarded with favour is better than silver and gold. This v. is inscribed in large letters on the walls of Manchester Exchange. Rabbi Simeon used to say: 'There are only three crowns; the cro...
'As the twig is bent so the tree's inclined.' IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO] i.e. according to the position and. work to which he is destined....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 22 V1 It is better to be a responsible person than to have great wealth. It is better that people trust you than for you to receive silver and...
This verse is a lesson for teachers to learn. It is also good advice for parents. We should teach even the youngest children. We should teach them about wisdom. We should teach them to obey God’s com...
חֲנֹ֣ךְ לַ֭ † נַּעַר עַל ־פִּ֣י דַרְכֹּ֑ו...
CHANNEL 23 THE TREATMENT OF THE POOR "The rich and the needy meet together; The Lord is the maker of them all."- Proverbs 22:2 "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his b...
“HE THAT LOVETH PURENESS OF HEART” Proverbs 22:1-16 Great riches are not always a great blessing. When they are held in trust for God, they afford the opportunity of giving a vast amount of happiness...
Verse Proverbs 22:2. The question that naturally arises on reading this is, Where do they meet together? This proverb is often used as having reference to the sanctuary or house of prayer; but a very...
Train up a child (d) in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (d) Bring him up virtuously and he will continue so....
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. Thorns and snares are in the way...
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...
TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO,.... As Abraham trained up his children, and those born in his house, in the way of the Lord, in the paths of justice and judgment; which are the ways in which...
_Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it._ Ver. 6. _Train up a child in the way he should go._] Or, According to his measure and capacity, dropping go...
_Train up_ Hebrew, חנךְ, _initiate_, or _instruct; a child in the way he should go_ Or, _according to his way_, that is, in that course or manner of life which thou wouldest have him to choose and fol...
V. 6. TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO, carefully imparting to him the instruction which he needs for the right formation of pious habits, the method of instruction following the age and the p...
TRAIN UP A CHILD: Or, catechize IN THE WAY: _ Heb._ in his way...
TRAIN UP, or, _initiate_ or _instruct, a child in the way he should go_, Heb. _in or according to his way_, i.e. either, 1. According to his capacity. Or rather, 2. In that course or manner of life w...
Proverbs 22:6 up H2596 (H8798) child H5288 way H1870 go H6310 old H2204 (H8686) depart H5493 ...
TRAIN UP A CHILD See (Ephesians 6:4); (2 Timothy 3:15)....
Proverbs 22:6 It is well to remember the general truth that all life can be trained. Dead substances cannot be trained. The higher you rise in the scale of life the more wide is the scope and the poss...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Those who walk humbly with God in obedience to the commands of His Word and in submission to the disposals of His providenc...
Proverbs 22:1. _A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches._ When a man lives revered for his piety, it is better than to be feared for his power. Proverbs 22:2. _The rich and the poor meet...
_Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it._ ON THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH A strict and virtuous education of youth is absolutely necessary to a man’s atta...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 22:6 TRAIN UP A CHILD. This proverb, founded on the covenant with Abraham (see Genesis 18:19), encourages parents to guide their children...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 22:3. ARE PUNISHED, rather “_must suffer injury_.” PROVERBS 22:4. BY HUMILITY, rather “_The end or reward of humility_,” etc. Delitzsch reads “_The reward of humility_ IS _...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 22:1 A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES. It will be observed that "good" in the Authorized Version is in italics, showing that the epithet is not expressed in th...
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold (Proverbs 22:1). The good name, so important, so valuable. Good reputation, so important. "Rather to...
1 Samuel 1:28; 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 2:26; 2 Timoth
Depart — Not easily and ordinarily....
How can this verse be true when experience teaches us that often children abandon the principles of their training? PROBLEM: According to Proverbs 22:6, if a child is trained in the way to live, he o...