Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 25:11
Of silver — Which it seems was usual in those times, and was grateful to the eye for the beauty and variety both of the colours and figures, the golden apples appearing through net — work of silver.
Of silver — Which it seems was usual in those times, and was grateful to the eye for the beauty and variety both of the colours and figures, the golden apples appearing through net — work of silver.
Verse Proverbs 25:11. _A WORD FITLY SPOKEN_] על אפניו _al ophannaiv, upon its_ _wheels_. An observation, caution, reproof, or advice, that _comes in_ _naturally, runs_ smoothly along, is not _forced_...
APPLES OF GOLD - Probably the golden colored fruit set in baskets (i. e., chased vessels of open worked silver); so is a word spoken upon its wheels (i. e., moving quickly and quietly on its way). The...
IV. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON COLLECTED BY THE MEN OF HEZEKIAH CHAPTER 25 Here begin the proverbs which the good king Hezekiah, under the guidance of the Spirit of God, added to this book. “This title...
FIRST DIVISION. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic couplets, and but few antithetic couplets. PROVERBS...
FITLY. timely. As we say "on the spur of the moment". APPLES OF GOLD. The difficulty is not in this expression, for jewellery is evidently intended from the first clause of the next verse. PICTURES....
_fitly_ Lit. UPON ITS WHEELS, i.e. smoothly and without hesitation. Others render, _at its_(proper) _times_, i.e. _seasonably_, perhaps from the idea of times or seasons "revolving," or "rolling roun...
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN, &C.— The author of the _Observations_ seems to have proved, that not _apples_ but _citrons_ are here meant, which were of the colour of gold; See Song of Solomon 2:3. And he think...
TEXT Proverbs 25:11-19 11. A word fitly spoken Is like applies of gold in network of silver. 12. As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear....
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. A WORD FITLY SPOKEN - Hebrew, spoken upon its two wheels; a word moving quickly on its wheels to the end aimed at the speaker comma...
25:11 pictures (d-6) Others, 'baskets.' season. (e-14) Or 'fitly.'...
The words appear to mean, 'A word spoken in season is golden fruit in silver carvings.'...
COURTS. QUARRELS 1-7. relate to kings and courts....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 25 MORE OF SOLOMON’S PROVERBS (WISE WORDS) (PROVERBS 25:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27)...
We should always want to say the right words. The right words are beautiful, like gold. The right words are valuable, like silver. But the right words are also rare, like silver or gold. People do not...
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN. — Or, it may be, _at the proper time._ (Comp. Proverbs 15:23.) APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES OF SILVER. — Probably golden-coloured apples are meant, or fruit of the same tint, such...
תַּפּוּחֵ֣י זָ֭הָב בְּ מַשְׂכִּיֹּ֥ות כָּ֑סֶף דָּ֝בָ֗ר...
CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable...
WORDS FITLY SPOKEN Proverbs 25:1-14 This collection of proverbs was made. 250years after the time of Solomon by the scribes of King Hezekiah. The glory of God is too great to be disclosed to the vulg...
We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gathered in the days of Hezekiah. Speaking generally, the...
Time, (Symmachus) "on its wheels," (Hebrew) flowing smoothly, (Calmet) or "according to his two faces, is apples of gold in network of silver. The Scriptures have a double sense. The exterior one lead...
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to a...
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...
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN,.... Or, "a word spoken on its wheels" d: that proceeds aright, keeps due order, is well circumstanced as to matter, method, time, place, and persons; a discourse well put together...
A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver. Ver. 11. _A word fitly spoken._] Hebrew, Spoken upon his wheels - that is, rightly ordered and circumstantiated, spoken with a grac...
_A word fitly spoken_ As to the matter, and season, and other circumstances of it; _is like apples of gold in pictures of silver_ Which, it seems, were usual in those times, and were grateful to the e...
A word fitly spoken, with proper wisdom and tact, IS LIKE APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES, in a framework, on a groundwork, of silver, the reference being to decorations such as were employed on ceilings a...
TRUE WISDOM THE HIGHEST GOOD OF KINGS AND SUBJECTS....
In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For departure is the very breeding-ground of division, -...
FITLY SPOKEN: _ Heb._ spoken upon his wheels...
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN, for the matter, and season, and other circumstances of it, IS LIKE APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES OF SILVER, which it seems was usual in those times, and was grateful to the eye for t...
Proverbs 25:11 word H1697 fitly H212 (H8675) H655 spoken H1696 (H8803) apples H8598 gold H2091 settings...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 25:22.) The way to turn an enemy into a friend is to act friendly towa...
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_A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver._ THE LESSONS OF THE ORANGE-TREE “Apples of gold” is a poetic name for the orange in more than one Eastern tongue. “Pictures of silve...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 25:8. LEST THOU KNOW NOT, etc. As will be seen from the italics in the English version, this sentence is very elliptical. Zöckler reads, “_lest_ (it be said to thee) _what w...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-29:27 PART VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS, gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the king and his subjects...
Now in chapter 25. These proverbs were gathered by Hezekiah when he became king, and they were added to the books of proverbs by Hezekiah's scribes. During the period of Hezekiah's reign, it was a per...
Ecclesiastes 12:10; Isaiah 50:4; Proverbs 15:23; Proverbs 24:26...