Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 1:8
My son — He speaks to his scholars with paternal authority and affection. Of thy mother — Those pious instructions, which thy mother instilled into thee in thy tender years.
My son — He speaks to his scholars with paternal authority and affection. Of thy mother — Those pious instructions, which thy mother instilled into thee in thy tender years.
Verse Proverbs 1:8. _MY SON, HEAR_] _Father_ was the title of _preceptor_, and _son_, that of _disciple_ or _scholar_, among the Jews. But here the reference appears to be to the _children of a famil...
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....
MY SON. See the Structure (p. 864) for the portions so addressed (Proverbs 1:6; Proverbs 1:9; Proverbs 1:18. Pro 19:20-34. Proverbs 27:1, Pro 27:29,
_instruction_ or DISCIPLINE, as in Proverbs 1:2_; Proverbs 1:7_. _law_ or _teaching_R.V. marg. θεσμοὺς, LXX....
First Address. Chap. Proverbs 1:8-19 Proverbs 1:8. In these two verses the writer passes to direct appeal. The form of appeal, _My son_, which is continually repeated throughout these opening Chapter...
MY SON, HEAR, &C.— It is very observable, how much human laws differ from divine. The former generally provides only that due regard be given by children to their fathers, but takes no notice of mothe...
CHAPTER 1 TEXT Proverbs 1:1-9 1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2. To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; 3. To receive instruction in...
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF THY FATHER, AND FORSAKE NOT THE LAW OF THY MOTHER. Even bad parents generally inst...
1:8 teaching (q-13) Or 'law,' and so chs. 3.1; 6.20; 7.2; 13.14....
The teacher addresses the learner as 'My son': parents will also give moral instruction....
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...
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...
In Solomon’s time, both parents educated their children. It is good when children can learn from both parents. We should listen to wisdom. Wisdom is beautiful, and it is valuable. To possess it is li...
MY SON. — The address as of a master to his pupil. This phrase only occurs twice again in Proverbs, excepting in sections (2) and (4). LAW. — Rather, _teaching._ (Comp. Proverbs 3:1.)...
שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי מוּסַ֣ר אָבִ֑יךָ וְ אַל ־תִּ֝
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 BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. _Wisdom_ as used in this book is more...
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;...
My son, hear the instruction of thy (g) father, and forsake not the law of thy (h) mother: (g) He speaks this in the Name of God, who is the universal Father of all creatures, or in the name of the p...
_Mother. The first precept is to learn of our elders, and the second to resist evil counsels, ver. 10. (Worthington) --- Our parents have the greatest influence over us. Solomon presupposes that they...
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, cons...
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...
MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF THY FATHER,.... This is not to be understood of God the Father of mankind, and of that law which he has given them, as Jarchi and Gersom interpret it, but of Solomon an...
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Ver. 8. _Hear the instruction of thy father, &c._] It is not fit to disobey God, thy father, nor thy teacher, saith...
_My son_, &c. He speaks to his scholars with paternal authority and affection, to render them more attentive and obedient. Teachers among the Hebrews were commonly called _fathers_, and their scholars...
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, his discipline, his teaching, as applied to all matters and conditions of life, AND FORSAKE NOT THE LAW OF THY MOTHER, setting aside her doctrine, her instr...
A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
7-9 Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do,...
MY SON; he speaks to his scholars with paternal authority and affection, to make them more attentive and obedient. Teachers among the Hebrews and others were commonly called FATHERS, and their scholar...
Proverbs 1:8 son H1121 hear H8085 (H8798) instruction H4148 father H1 forsake H5203 (H8799) law H8451 mother...
PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...
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...
PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...
ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY (PROVERBS 1:8). Here in chapter 1 the appeal is a fairly short one, but the writer m...
Proverbs 1:7 Solomon grounds the fear of God, the basis of the whole religious life, upon the duty of obedience to parents. I. It is not mere children to whom he is speaking; he is addressing young...
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...
_Hear the instruction of thy father._ THE FAMILY The first and great commandment is the fear of God, and the second, which is next to it and like to it, is obedience to parents. Wherever the root is...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:8 A Father’s Invitation to Wisdom. This section describes the two paths implied in Proverbs 1:7: the wise (grounded in the fear of the Lord) an
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:7. FOOLS, derived from a word meaning to be gross and dull of understanding. Gesenius understands it to signify “one who turns away,” the “perverse.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF...
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...
1 Samuel 2:25; 2 Timothy 1:5; Deuteronomy 21:18; Leviticus 19:3;...
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON Proverbs 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give thee...