George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 9:18
Giants. Who lived when all flesh had corrupted its ways, (Genesis vi. 12.) and were sentenced to hell, Job xxvi. 5., and Isaias xiv. 9. (Calmet)
Giants. Who lived when all flesh had corrupted its ways, (Genesis vi. 12.) and were sentenced to hell, Job xxvi. 5., and Isaias xiv. 9. (Calmet)
Verse Proverbs 9:18. _BUT HE KNOWETH NOT THAT THE DEAD ARE THERE_] See on Proverbs 2:18. He does not know that it was in this way the first apostates from God and truth walked. רפאים _rephaim_; γιγαν...
Compare the marginal reference. With this warning the long introduction closes, and the collection of separate proverbs begins. Wisdom and Folly have each spoken; the issues of each have been painted...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)_ 2. The contrast with Folly. (Proverbs 9:13) Proverbs 9:1. The first section of Proverbs closeth with a contrast of Wisdom and Folly, both pers...
PROVERBS 9. THE INVITATIONS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY CONTRASTED. This section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by with...
THE DEAD. Rephaim. (No Art.) See App-25. HELL. Sheol. App-35. Proverbs marked off by different authorship. All are in two lines, except Proverbs 19:7, which has three lines. They are miscellaneous, h...
_the dead_ To enter her house is to quit the land of the living, and enter the dark abode of the "shades," Heb. REPHAIM. See Proverbs 2:18, note. _hell_ Heb. SHEOL. See Proverbs 9:5, note, and comp. P...
Proverbs 9:13. The Introduction, or first main division of the Book, ends with the contrasted picture of Folly. She too has her house, at the door of which she sits (Proverbs 9:14); she too, though th...
TEXT Proverbs 9:10-18 10. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 11. For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy lif...
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. BUT HE KNOWETH NOT THAT THE DEAD (ARE) THERE; AND THAT HER GUESTS (ARE) IN THE DEPTHS OF HELL. "There", in...
9:18 dead (l-7) See ch. 2.18....
THE RIVALS Folly and Wisdom invite guests to their respective houses. The consequences of accepting either of the two invitations are described. We are reminded of the Greek parable, 'The choice of H...
‘Death is like a wage for the person who does evil things. But God gives us life that will last always, through Jesus.’ (Romans 6:23) Death and hell are the punishments for our evil actions. So we mu...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 9 Solomon’s last, great lesson to his son is almost complete. Perhaps Solomon paused here. Maybe he thought about whether he had taught enough...
THE DEAD ARE THERE. — Comp. on Proverbs 2:18....
וְֽ לֹא ־יָ֭דַע כִּֽי ־רְפָאִ֣ים שָׁ֑ם בְּ
CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is underst...
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Prove
TWO CONTRASTED INVITATIONS Proverbs 9:1-18 There is an age-long competition between Wisdom and Folly, Virtue and Vice. The palace of Wisdom is very attractive-well built and well furnished. It is...
The last address is a contrast between wisdom and folly. Each is personified as a woman calling to youth. Wisdom has builded her house, and spread her feast in the high places of the city. She calls t...
REFLECTIONS. READER! do not too hastily dismiss this chapter. Can anything be more happily chosen to represent the path of grace, and the broad road of destruction, than the very different representat...
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Who...
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 KNOWETH NOT THAT THE DEAD [ARE] THERE,.... In the house of this foolish and wicked woman, into which she invites passengers to turn; the simple, that is persuaded by her, does not consider that...
_But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell._ Ver. 18. _That the dead are there._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 2:18 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Pro 7:27 _"_...
_Whoso is simple_ Which title is not given to them by her; for such a reproach would not have allured them, but driven them away; but by Solomon, who represents the matter of her invitation in his own...
But he, the person who hearkens to the invitation of folly, KNOWETH NOT THAT THE DEAD ARE THERE, the children of death, who are moving forward to the horrors of the realm of death and everlasting dest...
THE BANQUET OF FOLLY...
13-18 How diligent the tempter is, to seduce unwary souls into sin! Carnal, sensual pleasure, stupifies conscience, and puts out the sparks of conviction. This tempter has no solid reason to offer; a...
KNOWETH NOT, i.e. he doth not consider it seriously, whereby he proveth his folly....
Proverbs 9:18 know H3045 (H8804) dead H7496 guests H7121 (H8803) depths H6012 hell H7585 he -...
THE APPEAL OF WOMAN FOLLY TO THE NAIVE (PROVERBS 9:13). There is no suggestion that Woman Folly's house is opulent or well-provisioned. And indeed she herself is described as ‘turbulent' and ‘knowing...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
CONTENTS: Wisdom (Christ) and sin, as rivals for the soul of man. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom. CONCLUSION: Christ and sin are both seeking to have the uppermost place in the soul of man. We are therefor...
Proverbs 9:1. _Wisdom hath builded her house._ This chapter opens with a sublime allegory. We see the princess, the mother of angels and men, enthroned in her temple, “the church which is the pillar a...
_Her guests are in the depths of hell._ WHOSE GUESTS SHALL WE BE? It is through blindness and inconsideration that any man is entangled in the snares of the foolish woman. We are naturally starving c...
_But he knoweth not that the dead are there._ THE FATAL BANQUET Here two texts. Preach concerning a couple of preachers; one by usurpation, the other by assignation: the world’s chaplain, and the Lor...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 9:18 The first major section of Proverbs 1:1 (Proverbs 1:8) closes with a reminder that, although
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 9:13. A FOOLISH WOMAN, rather, “the woman of folly,” an exact opposition of the personified wisdom of the former part of the chapter. CLAMOROUS, “violently excited” _(Zöckle...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 9:1 15. _Fifteenth admonitory discourse, _containing in a parabolic form an invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1), and that of her rival Folly (Proverbs 9:13). Th
Chapter 9 continues in its praise of wisdom. Wisdom hath built her house, she has hewn out the seven pillars: She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; and she has furnished her table. And...
2 Peter 3:5; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 2:19; Proverbs 5:5;...