Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 8:2
High place — Where she may be best seen and heard. Paths — Where many paths meet, where there is a great concourse, and where travellers may need direction.
High place — Where she may be best seen and heard. Paths — Where many paths meet, where there is a great concourse, and where travellers may need direction.
Verse Proverbs 8:2. _IN THE PLACES OF THE PATHS._] בית נתיבת נצבה _beith_ _nethiboth nitstsabah_, "The constituted house of the paths." Does not this mean the house of public worship? the tabernacle...
The full enumeration of localities points to the publicity and openness of Wisdom’s teaching (see Proverbs 1:20 note), as contrasted with the stealth and secrecy and darkness which shroud the harlot’s...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...
PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...
HIGH PLACES. places of vantage. IN THE PLACES OF THE PATHS. in the places where the paths meet....
Proverbs 8:1. _The call of Wisdom_. Comp. Proverbs 1:20-21....
in _the places of the paths_ Lit. IN THE HOUSE OR HOME OF THE PATHS, i.e. where many roads or streets run up into one common meeting-place, and so give vantage-ground for her call. The R.V. arranges...
BY THE WAY, &C.— _Upon the way, within, or amidst the paths._ The LXX read, _She hath stood in the middle of the paths._...
CHAPTER 8 TEXT Proverbs 8:1-11 1. Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice? 2. On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth; 3. Beside the gates,...
She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. SHE STANDETH IN THE TOP OF HIGH PLACES, BY THE WAY IN THE PLACES OF THE PATHS. "Standeth" implies assiduous perseveran...
WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
The HIGH PLACES are the walls and towers, vantage-points for a speaker....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
The evil woman (in Proverbs 7:12) went everywhere. Wisdom is also everywhere. Wherever people are, Wisdom is there. (Wisdom is like a woman.) She is waiting to advise them. She wants to help them. She...
SHE STANDETH IN THE TOP OF HIGH PLACES. — _i.e.,_ in the higher parts of the city, where her voice will best be heard. BY THE WAY... — She goes everywhere where she may find the greatest concourse of...
בְּ רֹאשׁ ־מְרֹומִ֥ים עֲלֵי ־דָ֑רֶךְ בֵּ֖ית נ
CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
“BETTER THAN GOLD” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a Pr...
The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
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...
SHE STANDETH IN THE TOP OF HIGH PLACES,.... To be both seen and heard, for which reason Christ went up into a mountain and preached, Matthew 5:1; BY THE WAY; the roadside, to instruct and direct pass...
She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. Ver. 2. _She standeth in the top of high places._] That is, saith an interpreter, In the lofty oracles of the patriarchs...
_She standeth in the top of high places_ Where she may be best seen and heard; not in corners, and in the dark, as the harlot did; _by the way in the places of the paths_ Where many paths meet, where...
She standeth in the top of high places, on the top of high places along the way, easily to be seen by all who pass by, by the way in the places of the paths, at the cross-roads....
OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....
To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
1-11 The will of God is made known by the works of creation, and by the consciences of men, but more clearly by Moses and the prophets. The chief difficulty is to get men to attend to instruction. Yet...
IN THE TOP OF HIGH PLACES, where she may be best seen and heard; not in corners and in the dark, as the harlot did. In the places of the paths; where many paths meet, where there is a great concourse,...
Proverbs 8:2 stand H5324 (H8738) top H7218 hill H4791 way H1870 meet H1004 H5410...
1). WISDOM CALLS ON MEN TO HEAR HER (PROVERBS 8:1). Wisdom had been defined for us earlier in the Prologue. She is based on ‘the fear of YHWH' (Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 2:5;...
CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...
Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
_She standeth in the top of high places._ THE PURPOSE AND RANGE OF WISDOM She sets up her tower everywhere, and speaks to all mankind. That is the true wisdom. When we come to understand the purpose...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PLACES OF THE PATHS “in the midst of the highways.” “These ways are roads, solitary paths, not streets in the city, and the delineation proceeds in such an order as to exhibit Wisdom;...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
Exodus 15:8; Exodus 7:15; Genesis 37:7; Judges 5:18; Proverbs 9:14;...