Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 25:27
Not good — For health. To search — Industriously to seek for applause. Is not — Is not only sinful, but shameful also.
Not good — For health. To search — Industriously to seek for applause. Is not — Is not only sinful, but shameful also.
Verse Proverbs 25:27. IT IS _NOT GOOD TO EAT MUCH HONEY_] _Coverdale_ translates the whole passage thus: "Like as it is not good to eat to muche hony; even so, he that wyll search out hye thinges, it...
SO FOR MEN ... - A difficult sentence, the text of which is probably defective. The words are not in the original. Many commentators render: so to search into weighty matters is itself a weight, i. e....
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...
is not _glory_ The words _is not_are not in the Heb., but are supplied both in A.V. and R.V. text. The R.V. marg. has, "_But_for men _to search out their own glory is glory_. The Hebrew text is obscur...
IT IS NOT GOOD TO EAT MUCH HONEY— See on Proverbs 25:16 and Isaiah 7:15. Delicious as honey is to an eastern palate, it has been thought sometimes to have produced terrible effects. Thus Sanutus in th...
TEXT Proverbs 25:20-28 20. As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart, 21. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread t...
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. (IT IS) NOT GOOD TO EAT MUCH HONEY ( ); SO (FOR MEN) TO SEARCH THEIR OWN GLORY (IS NOT) GLORY. Glory follows h...
25:27 weight. (c-18) Or 'is glory,' the word having both meanings. Or 'so [for men] to seek their own glory is [not] glory.'...
LXX. reads, 'It is not good,' etc.: 'Therefore be sparing in words of commendation.' Too much flattery is like too much honey....
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)...
You might like honey. But you cannot eat only honey. So you make a mistake if there is too much honey in your meal. This man also has made a mistake. He wants to be a great man. So he pretends that h...
SO FOR MEN TO SEARCH THEIR OWN GLORY IS NOT GLORY. — The sense of this passage is very doubtful. It may mean, “But to search into difficult matters is an honour.” Self-indulgence and study are here co...
אָ֘כֹ֤ל דְּבַ֣שׁ הַרְבֹּ֣ות לֹא ־טֹ֑וב וְ חֵ֖
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...
SELF-CONTROL AND KINDLINESS Proverbs 25:15-28 In this paragraph we have good advice as to our dealings with the varied characters with whom we are forced into daily contact. Here is a man hard as a b...
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...
Majesty, viz., of God. For to search into that incomprehensible Majesty, and to pretend to sound the depths of the wisdom of God, is exposing our weak understanding to be blinded with an excess of lig...
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. He that hath no rul...
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] NOT GOOD TO EAT MUCH HONEY,.... That is too much otherwise it is good to eat, Proverbs 24:13; but too much is hurtful, it surfeits the stomach increases choler e and creates loathing; and inde...
Proverbs 25:27 [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory. Ver. 27. _It is not good to eat too much honey._] For it breeds choler and brings diseases. _...
_It is not good to eat much honey_ Namely, for the health of the body; _so for men to search their own glory_ Industriously to seek for honour and applause from men; _is not glory_ Is not only sinful,...
It is not good to eat much honey, it is so overrich in nourishment that its excessive use will produce a feeling of repugnance; SO FOR MEN TO SEARCH THEIR OWN GLORY IS NOT GLORY, literally, "and seeki...
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, -...
NOT GOOD, to wit, for the health of the body. FOR MEN; which words are easily understood, both out of the foregoing clause, where the honey is supposed to be eaten by men, and out of the following wor...
Proverbs 25:27 good H2896 eat H398 (H8800) much H7235 (H8687) honey H1706 seek H2714 glory H3519 glory...
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 not good to eat much honey._ NATURAL DESIRES RUNNING TOO FAR Man is a creature of manifold desires. These desires may be divided into two grand classes-- 1. Those that can never go too far....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 25:27. The last phrase in this verse is variously rendered. The words _is not_ are not in the Hebrew. Stuart reads, “_Searching after one’s own glory is burdensome_”—_i.e._,...
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...
2 Corinthians 12:1; 2 Corinthians 12:11; John 5:44; Philippians 2:3;...