George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 8:36
Death. Not in itself, (Haydock) but by adhering to such things as bring death. (Menochius)
Death. Not in itself, (Haydock) but by adhering to such things as bring death. (Menochius)
Verse Proverbs 8:36. _WRONGETH HIS OWN SOUL_] It is not _Satan_, it is not _sin_, properly speaking, that hurts him; it is _himself_. If he received the teaching of God, _sin would have no dominion ov...
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 ...
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...
SINNETH. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. LOVE DEATH. live and act so as to lose life. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause)....
_sinneth_against] Or, "_misseth_," R.V. marg. The Heb. word here used means primarily to miss the mark (as, for example, a slinger, Judges 20:16). Then it is used commonly for missing the mark, or err...
DISCOURSE: 771 THE VALUE OF TRUE WISDOM Proverbs 8:35. _Whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. But he that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul: all they that, hate...
TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36 22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. 23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24. When there...
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. BUT HE THAT SINNETH AGAINST ME WRONGETH HIS OWN SOUL: ALL THEY THAT HATE ME LOVE DEATH. Not to love and earne...
8:36 me (b-6) Or 'he that misseth me.'...
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...
He who misses wisdom wrongs himself....
If a man refuses wisdom, then he will suffer. His punishment is severe. A man who hates wisdom will die....
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....
HE THAT SINNETH AGAINST ME. — Rather, _He that misses me does not find me._ So in Greek, sin (ἁμαρτία) is a “missing” of the true object of life....
וְֽ֭ חֹטְאִי חֹמֵ֣ס נַפְשֹׁ֑ו כָּל ־מְ֝שַׂנְאַ֗י...
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...
FINDING WISDOM, FINDING LIFE Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by _chance_. It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression of th...
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...
REFLECTIONS. AND now, Reader! having gone over this blessed chapter, pause and enquire at your own heart what are your views concerning the contents of it? Doth it strike your mind that the wisdom her...
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,...
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...
BUT HE THAT SINNETH AGAINST ME,.... Or misses the mark, as the word b signifies; and which is observed by Aben Ezra; see Judges 20:16. Christ is the mark and scope of the counsels of God; of the cove...
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. Ver. 36. _Wrongeth his own soul._] _Rapit animam suam._ He plunders his own soul of its happiness; yea, he crue...
_But he that sinneth against me_ By the neglect or contempt of, or rebellion against my commands; _wrongeth his own soul_ Doth the greatest injury to his own soul: he even destroys it, and is guilty o...
But he that sinneth against Me wrongeth his own soul, bringing everlasting harm upon it. ALL THEY THAT HATE ME LOVE DEATH, their behavior showing that they prefer destruction, that they deliberately p...
THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
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...
32-36 Surely we should hearken to Christ's voice with the readiness of children. Let us all be wise, and not refuse such mercy. Blessed are those who hear the Saviour's voice, and wait on him with da...
HE THAT SINNETH AGAINST ME, by the neglect or contempt of or rebellion against my commands, WRONGETH HIS OWN SOUL; is guilty of self-murder and of soul-murder. THEY THAT HATE ME, i.e. who reject and d...
Proverbs 8:36 sins H2398 (H8802) wrongs H2554 (H8802) soul H5315 hate H8130 (H8764) love H157 ...
6). WISDOM BRINGS BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR HER FOR THROUGH HER THEY FIND LIFE AND COME INTO THE FAVOUR OF GOD (PROVERBS 8:32). Because her delight was with the sons of men Wisdom calls on men to lis...
Proverbs 8:36 Who is the "Me"? It is Wisdom. Who is the Wisdom? It is Christ; Christ is the Wisdom of God. What is the particular truth of the text? It is this, that sin is not only an offence to God,...
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...
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...
_He that sinneth against Me wrongeth him own soul._ THE SINNER WRONGETH HIS OWN SOUL I. What are we to understand by a man sinning against Christ? 1. To take partial views of His glorious gospel....
_The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way._ WISDOM THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--an id...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:32 O SONS draws together all of Wisdom’s paternal appeals to highlight the benefits of wisdom for faithful covenant living. ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH. Those who practice w...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:36. SINNETH AGAINST, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch, and Miller. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:32_ EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WI...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:22; Acts 13:46; Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 33:11;...