The glory — It is agreeable to the nature of God; it is a testimony of his infinite wisdom, and of his absolute power and sovereignty. To conceal — To keep his counsels, and the reasons of his actions in his own breast. Search out — To communicate their counsels to others, that so they may search and find out the right way.
Verse Proverbs 25:2. It is _THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A THING_] This has been understood as referring to the revelation of God's will in his word, where there are many things concealed in _parables...
The earthly monarch might be, in some respects, the type of the heavenly, but here there is a marked contrast. The king presses further and further into all knowledge; God surrounds Himself as in “thi...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. Compare Job 37:14. Job 37:38-41. HONOUR. glory, as in preceding line....
_conceal … search out_ "To God it brings glory and admiration, that in governing the universe He follows out His own, and that a secret, counsel. To kings it is a source of glory to search out by thei...
TO CONCEAL A THING— That is, according to Grotius, _His purposes and nature;_ whereas it is the honour of a king to examine into and make himself acquainted with the state, actions, and designs of his...
CHAPTER 25 TEXT Proverbs 25:1-10 1. These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. 2. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But the glory of kings i...
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. (IT IS) THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A THING - to conceal His profound counsels and decrees wherewith He...
The works of God in history and nature are beyond us (Deuteronomy 29:29; Job 11:7; Job 15:8; Isaiah 45:15;...
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)...
Mysteries show one way that kings differ from God. We know that God is great. We see many mysteries that are the works of God. We see plants and animals. But we do not know how God made them. We do n...
IT IS THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A THING. — For the more we search into the mysteries of nature or revelation, the more do we discover depths of which we had no idea before. God has so ordered things...
כְּבֹ֣ד אֱ֭לֹהִים הַסְתֵּ֣ר דָּבָ֑ר וּ כְבֹ֥ד...
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...
[It is] the glory of God to (c) conceal a thing: but the honour of (d) kings [is] to search out a matter. (c) God does not reveal the cause of his judgments to man. (d) Because the king rules by the...
_Speech. The Scriptures will denounce the truth to them, and shew them how to reign with justice. We must adore the mysteries of God; but are allowed to examine the secret designs of princes._...
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. God's glory is manifested to the poor sinner in secret, when he speaks to him by his Holy Spirit, and mak...
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...
[IT IS] THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A THING,.... Secret things belong unto him, and they are kept so by him: many things which he does reveal, yet the "modus" or manner of them remains hidden; as what...
__ Proverbs 25:2 _[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter._ Ver. 2. _It is the glory of God to conceal a thing._] That what we conceive not,...
_It is the glory of God to conceal a thing_ It is agreeable to the nature of God, and highly conducing to his honour, as being a testimony of his infinite wisdom and knowledge, of his absolute power a...
TRUE WISDOM THE HIGHEST GOOD OF KINGS AND SUBJECTS....
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, He, whose essence is unsearchable and whose wisdom is past finding out, cannot he grasped by finite minds; BUT THE HONOR OF KINGS IS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER,...
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, -...
IT IS THE GLORY OF GOD; it is agreeable to the nature and highly conducing to the honour of God, because it is a testimony of his infinite wisdom and knowledge, of his absolute power and sovereignty,...
Proverbs 25:2 glory H3519 God H430 conceal H5641 (H8687) matter H1697 glory H3519 kings H4428 out...
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...
Proverbs 25:1. _These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out._ Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32. The supplement to the boo...
_It is the glory of God to conceal a thing._ THE GLORY OF GOD IN CONCEALING If God were to conceal everything from our view, it would be impossible that any glory could result to Him from the sentime...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:2 GOD is greater than human beings. He deserves fame, or GLORY, because he knows things mere humans cannot know ...
With this chapter begins the fourth main division of this book, consisting, as its introductory words inform us, of sayings and perhaps writings of Solomon, which were placed together in their present...
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...
1 Kings 3:9; 1 Kings 4:29; Deuteronomy 29:29; Ezra 4:15; Ezra 4:19;...