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DOCTRINE - Knowledge orally given and received....
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_
2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10)
3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
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Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9
Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone
of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends
Wisdom to his scholars...
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CHAPTER 4
TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9
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Hear my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2.
For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my law.
3.
For I was a son unto my...
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For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. FOR I GIVE YOU
GOOD DOCTRINE, FORSAKE YE NOT MY LAW. It is "good," as having God for
its author, truths of everlasting moment to us for its subjec...
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4:2 law. (f-11) Or 'teaching,' as ch. 3.1....
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ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS
In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his
instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought
valuable save that which was handed do...
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The poem begins with commands to listen. The father will teach a
valuable lesson to his sons....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 4
V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction.
As you listen to me, you will understand more....
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This poem is not just about Solomon’s family. It is about all
families. It tells us that a father should teach his son. When he
grows older, the son should teach his own children.
Solomon’s family wa...
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כִּ֤י לֶ֣קַח טֹ֭וב נָתַ֣תִּי לָכֶ֑ם
תֹּֽ֝ורָתִ֗י...
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CHAPTER 5
EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT
"Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth.
"He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4
THIS chapter begins with a...
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THE COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE.
Proverbs 3:27-35; Proverbs 4:1-9
Here are many duties! _Be generous!_ Of course we must discriminate-
_to whom it is due;_ and we must be prudent- _when it is in the powe...
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In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature
of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are
exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his
own...
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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...
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FOR I GIVE YOU GOOD DOCTRINE,.... Whose author, matter, use, and
tendency, are good, and therefore should be received; so the Gospel is
called, 1 Timothy 4:6; and no other is here meant: it is the doc...
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For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Ver. 2. _For I give you good doctrine._] The common cry is, "Who will
show us any good?" and every man will lend both ears to a good
bargain. The...
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_Hear, &c., the instruction of a father_ Of me, who have paternal
authority over you, and great affection for you. _For I give you, good
doctrine_ Not vain or foolish, much less false or pernicious co...
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1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though
instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome.
Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men,
in ev...
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GOOD DOCTRINE; not vain, or foolish, or false, or pernicious counsels,
but such as are true and profitable. MY LAW; God's law or commands,
delivered to you by my mouth. SEE POOLE ON "PROVERBS 3:1"....
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Proverbs 4:2 give H5414 (H8804) good H2896 doctrine H3948 forsake
H5800 (H8799) law H8451
good -...
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A GENERAL APPEAL TO ‘SONS' (PROVERBS 4:1).
The change from ‘my son' to ‘sons', which occurs only here as an
opening address, may well have taken place because of Solomon's
reference in Proverbs 4:3 to...
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CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that
which recommends us to God, which be...
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Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash,
cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the
domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his
ch...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 4:2. DOCTRINE, Literally something received, handed over; the
author so describes it because he received it from his father. The
Septuagint and the Vulgate translate by DONU...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 4:1
7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group
of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my
children," and which occurs again...
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Continuing to his son.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you
might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake
my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
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1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Timothy 4:6; 2 Chronicles 7:19; Deuteronomy 32:2;...
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SACRED EXHORTATIONS
Proverbs 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to
say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to
their fath...