Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 23:23
Buy — Purchase it upon any terms, spare no pains or cost. Truth — The true and saving knowledge of God's will. Sell it not — Do not forsake it for any worldly advantage.
Buy — Purchase it upon any terms, spare no pains or cost. Truth — The true and saving knowledge of God's will. Sell it not — Do not forsake it for any worldly advantage.
Verse Proverbs 23:23. _BUY THE TRUTH_] Acquire the _knowledge of God_ at all events; and in order to do this, too much pains, industry, and labour cannot be expended. _AND SELL_ IT _NOT_] When once...
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
WISDOM. Hebrew. _chakmah._ See note on Proverbs 1:2. Not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 23:4; Proverbs 23:8....
_buy … sell_it _not_ Procure it at any cost: part with it on no consideration. Comp. Matthew 13:44-45. _also_ Rather, _even_, or, _yea_. The things mentioned are not additions to, but elements of "th...
DISCOURSE: 805 BUYING THE TRUTH Proverbs 23:23. _Buy the truth; and sell it not_. THE rich variety of metaphors contained in the Holy Scriptures gives an endless diversity to the most simple truths:...
TEXT Proverbs 23:13-23 13. Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol...
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. BUY THE TRUTH - (; , notes; .) SELL IT NOT - part with it for no consideration, money, pleasure, fame, ease; for i...
23:23 Buy (e-1) Or 'Get.' see chs. 1.5; 4.5,7; 18.15....
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 23 V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful! Think, before you eat!...
If the son loves his parents, then he should listen to them. He should obey their instructions. And he should learn to be wise. Then his parents will be glad. They will have great joy, because their s...
BUY THE TRUTH, AND SELL IT NOT. — The “truth” is here described under the three heads of wisdom, self-discipline, and understanding. (See above, on Proverbs 1:2.) All these are to be obtained from God...
אֱמֶ֣ת קְ֭נֵה וְ אַל ־תִּמְכֹּ֑ר חָכְמָ֖ה וּ
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
Buy (k) the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (k) Spare no cost for truths sake, neither depart from it for any gain....
_Sell. Acquire as much wisdom as possible, and keep it with care. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "do not drive wisdom from thee."_...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
BUY THE TRUTH, AND SELL [IT] NOT,.... Evangelical truth, the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, which comes from the God of truth; has Christ, who is the truth, for the stem and substance of it;...
_Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding._ Ver. 23. _Buy the truth and sell it not._] Every parcel of truth is precious, as the filings of gold, as the bez...
_Hearken unto thy father that begat thee_ And who, therefore, desires and seeks thy good in all his counsels; _and despise not thy mother when she is old_ When the infirmity of age is added to that of...
V. 23. BUY THE TRUTH, not minding the hard labor and sacrifice required to gain it, AND SELL IT NOT, since it is precious beyond all riches of the world; ALSO WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION AND UNDERSTANDING,...
BUY THE TRUTH; purchase it upon any terms, spare no pains nor cost to get it. _The truth_; the true and saving knowledge of God's mind and will concerning your salvation, and the way that leads to it....
Proverbs 23:23 Buy H7069 (H8798) truth H571 sell H4376 (H8799) wisdom H2451 instruction H4148 understanding H998
Proverbs 23:23 The text declares two great truths: first, that truth is a matter of purchase; and, secondly, that there is a possibility of selling it and an inclination to do so. I. Truth is, of cou...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
_Buy the truth, and sell it not._ A DOMESTIC HOMILY ON BUYING THE TRUTH When the wise man counselled his pupil to “buy the truth,” he had the whole range of truth before his mind: truth in history, i...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:17. LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY, etc. The verb translated _envy_ refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “_strive after_.” Miller renders it “_be aglow...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
Acts 20:23; Hebrews 11:26; Isaiah 55:1; Job 28:12; Matthew 13:44;...