Ye simple ones; ye ignorant, and easy, and credulous persons, who are so soon cheated by the world and the devil, and do not understand your own interest. Love simplicity; being unwilling to part with it, or to be made wiser. Scorners; that scoff at all religion, and contemn the word and faithful ministers of God. Fools; wilful and wicked fools, as Proverbs 17:10, Proverbs 26:4.
Verse Proverbs 1:22. _YE SIMPLE ONES_] פתים _pethayim_, ye who have been _seduced_ and _deceived_. See on Proverbs 1:4....
Compare the Psalms 1:1 note. (1) The “simple,” literally, “open,” i. e. fatally open to evil; (2) the “scorners,” mocking at all good; (3) lastly, the “fools” in the sense of being hardened, obstin...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To int...
PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
LOVE. The second feature. The first was ignorance in Proverbs 1:7....
_simple_ unwary, see Proverbs 1:4 above, note. _love simplicity_ when you stand in need of that _subtilty_, which wisdom offers you (Proverbs 1:4). When war is at the gates, you are not safe without...
DISCOURSE: 753 THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openi...
TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33 20. Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; 21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city...
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? HOW LONG, YE SIMPLE ONES, WILL YE LOVE SIMPLICITY? Wisdom wishes, by a start...
The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge. I...
THE WOMAN CALLED WISDOM In his second story, Solomon tells us about a woman. This woman’s name is Wisdom. The woman is upset, and she is angry. This is why she shouts. Her children are not obeying...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
HOW LONG... — Three classes of persons are here addressed: (1) _simple_ ones, open to good influences, but also to evil (Proverbs 1:4); (2) _scorners_ (_lçtsîm_)_,_ men who despised what was holy, pri...
עַד ־מָתַ֣י ׀ פְּתָיִם֮ תְּֽאֵהֲב֫וּ פֶ֥תִי וְ...
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 understa...
THE CALL OF WISDOM Proverbs 1:20-33 The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our Lord, who, as the Word o...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...
How long, ye (s) simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (s) Wisdom reproves three kinds of men, the foolish or simple who err out...
_Fools. Hebrew, "and scorners delight in their scorning." (Protestants) --- Such are the pests of society. (Haydock) --- They turn piety to ridicule, and will talk about things which they do not under...
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
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...
HOW LONG, YE SIMPLE ONES, WILL YE LOVE SIMPLICITY?.... Simple foolish things, agreeably to their character, being weak simple men, men of weak capacities and shallow understandings; and such were the...
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Ver. 22. _How long, ye simple ones._] The _fatuelli_ that are easily persuaded...
_How long, ye simple ones_ Ye ignorant, careless, and credulous persons, who are so easily deceived by sin and sinners, and cheated and deluded by the world, and the god of it, and do not understand o...
THE INVITATION OF WISDOM...
How long, ye simple ones, inexperienced and ingenuous people, easily influenced by temptation, WILL YE LOVE SIMPLICITY AND THE SCORNERS DELIGHT IN THEIR SCORNING, their open denial and rejection of th...
20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...
Proverbs 1:22 ones H6612 love H157 (H8799) simplicity H6612 scorners H3887 (H8801) delight H2530 (H8804) scorning...
WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT IN LONGING THAT PEOPLE WILL RESPOND TO HER WORDS AND GAIN FROM WHAT SHE OFFERS (PROVERBS 1:20). Wisdom is now personified as a woman crying out to people to respond to...
WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT TO BE HEARD, LONGING FOR RESPONSE, PROMISING INCULCATION OF HER OWN SPIRIT, AND WARNING OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (PROVERBS 1:20). We have here the first of the w...
DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
Proverbs 1:20 The wisdom of God is a manifold wisdom. While it centres bodily in Christ, and thence issues as from its source, it is reflected and re-echoed from every object and every event. Every la...
CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
_Wisdom crieth without _ THE VOICE OF TRUE WISDOM The Lord Jesus Christ is the true Wisdom which speaks to the sons of men. The ancients were accustomed to speak of their religion as wisdom or phil...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew. PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.” PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
2 Peter 3:3; Exodus 10:3; Exodus 16:28; Job 34:7; John 3:20;...
WISDOM'S CALL Proverbs 1:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered circles, whe...
Scoffers — That scoff at religion and contemn the word and faithful ministers of God....