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COALS - Charcoal....
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CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD
Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different
words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which
signifies weakness....
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THE BOOK OF FOOLS. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets
dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2). The text is unusually
corrupt and defective.
PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...
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_kindle_ Better, INFLAME, R.V....
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TEXT Proverbs 26:20-28
20.
For lack of wood the fire goeth out;
And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
21.
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to...
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As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious
man to kindle strife.
(AS) COALS (ARE) TO BURNING COALS, AND WOOD TO FIRE; SO (IS) A
CONTENTIOUS MAN TO KINDLE STRIFE (; )....
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For coal read 'bellows.'...
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FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS
1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
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You need wood to start a fire. A man who disagrees is like the wood.
He can start a terrible argument.
But we cannot always agree with everyone. And we cannot avoid every
argument. But we should thin...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 26
V1 Snow should not fall in summer.
Rain should not fall during the harvest....
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פֶּחָ֣ם לְ֭ גֶחָלִים וְ עֵצִ֣ים לְ
אֵ֑שׁ
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CHAPTER 27
THE FOOL
"As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for
a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...
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Verse Proverbs 26:2. Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is
unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm.
Verses Proverbs 26:3. In this group of proverbs the fool is the
subject. The...
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The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and
rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
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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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AS COALS [ARE] TO BURNING COALS, AND WOOD TO FIRE,.... As brands, wood
half burnt, or dead coals put to live and burning ones, soon take fire
and become like them, and fit and proper fuel for them, an...
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Proverbs 26:21 [As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so
[is] a contentious man to kindle strife.
Ver. 21. _So is a contentious man._] Heb., A man of contentions, _Vir
biliosus et belli...
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_Where no wood is, the fire goeth out:_ &c. As the fire will soon be
extinguished if you take away the fuel that feeds it; _so, where there
is no tale-bearer_ To carry such reports from one to another...
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THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the
work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to
the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....
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Heb. _A man of contentions_, that loveth and giveth him self up to
contentions....
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Proverbs 26:21 charcoal H6352 coals H1513 wood H6086 fire H784
contentious H4079 (H8675) H4066 man H376 kindle...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two
ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and
hear mor...
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Proverbs 26:1. _As snow in summer,_ which beats down the fruits; _and
as rain in harvest,_ which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is
honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...
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_He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife._
MISCHIEVOUS CITIZENS
I. The meddler (Proverbs 26:17).
1. His conduct defined.
2. His mischief indicated. Renders himself liable to the anger of one,...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:17 These proverbs describe a person who
uses his WORDS carelessly.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 26:17. MEDDLETH, rather, “_is excited_.”
PROVERBS 26:21. COALS TO BURNING COALS—_i.e., “black coals to
burning_,” etc.
PROVERBS 26:22. A repetition of
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 26:1
Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception,
perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
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Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening.
The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to
any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...
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1 Kings 12:2; 1 Kings 12:20; 1 Kings 12:3; 2 Samuel 20:1; Proverbs