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Proverbs 8:10
Receive My instruction and not silver, for true wisdom is to be preferred above the greatest wealth of this world, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Receive My instruction and not silver, for true wisdom is to be preferred above the greatest wealth of this world, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Verse Proverbs 8:10. _RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION, AND NOT SILVER_] A Hebrew idiom; _receive my instruction_ in preference to silver....
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...
RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION, AND NOT SILVER— _Rather than silver;_ that is to say_, preferably to silver;_ or it may be, "Give not your heart to money, if you would possess wisdom." It is impossible to joi...
CHAPTER 8 TEXT Proverbs 8:1-11 1. Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice? 2. On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth; 3. Beside the gates,...
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION, AND NOT SILVER. Thou canst not make as thy chief aim the acquisition of silver and that of tru...
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...
Money is not really valuable. Silver and gold are beautiful, but they cannot give a good life to you. Wisdom is valuable. Wisdom is better than money, silver or gold. The Bible is also better than th...
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....
קְחֽוּ ־מוּסָרִ֥י וְ אַל ־כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝ דַ֗עַת
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...
“BETTER THAN GOLD” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a Pr...
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...
_Money. They are generally incompatible._...
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak t...
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...
RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION, AND NOT SILVER,.... Not but that silver may be desired, sought after and received, consistent with the instructions of wisdom; though an anxious, immoderate, sinful pursuit aft...
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Ver. 10. _Receive mine instruction, and not money._] That is, Rather than money; as, "I will have mercy, and not sacrifi...
_For my mouth shall speak truth_ Hebrew, יהגה, _shall meditate_, that is, shall speak, not rashly and hastily, but what I have well considered and digested. _Wickedness is an abomination_, &c. I hate...
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...
1-11 The will of God is made known by the works of creation, and by the consciences of men, but more clearly by Moses and the prophets. The chief difficulty is to get men to attend to instruction. Yet...
AND NOT SILVER, i.e. rather than silver, as such negative expressions are understood, Genesis 45:8 Exodus 16:8 Jeremiah 7:22, Jeremiah 16:1
Proverbs 8:10 Receive H3947 (H8798) instruction H4148 silver H3701 knowledge H1847 choice H977 (H8737) gold H2742
2). WISDOM CALLS ON THE NAIVE AND ON FOOLS TO PAY HEED TO HER WORDS BECAUSE HER INSTRUCTION IS BOTH TRUE AND VALUABLE (PROVERBS 8:5). Wisdom's words come especially to the naive and to ‘fools' (compar...
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...
_Receive my instruction, and not silver._ THE COMMENDATION OF WISDOM I. Knowledge must be received. 1. Do not refuse knowledge offered you in the Book of God. 2. Do not refuse instruction offered...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:11. RUBIES, “pearls.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:10_ WISDOM BETTER THAN WEALTH I. WISDOM IS TO BE PREFERRED TO WEALTH BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO A HIGHER S...
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...
2 Corinthians 6:10; Acts 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:11; Proverbs 10:20;...
And not silver — Rather than silver....