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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
1.
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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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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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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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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For I give you good doctrine, teachings which he had received from his
father, the value of which had been proved, which he could therefore
hand over to the younger generation with words of warm comme...
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ADMONITIONS CONCERNING WISDOM...
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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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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...