Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 8:21
Substance — Substantial happiness: opposed to all worldly enjoyments, which are but mere shadows.
Substance — Substantial happiness: opposed to all worldly enjoyments, which are but mere shadows.
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...
TREASURES. treasuries. and Syriac render it "created" (_ektise)_. Compare the use of the verb in this book (Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 4:5; Proverbs 4:7;...
_I will fill their treasures_ or, _that I may fill their treasuries_. R.V. The LXX. add to this verse: "If I announce to you the things that are daily coming to pass, I will be mindful to take count...
TEXT Proverbs 8:12-21 12. I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion. 13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the...
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. THAT I MAY CAUSE THOSE THAT LOVE ME TO INHERIT SUBSTANCE. "Substance" [ yeesh (H3426)]: what has a real, s...
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 woman called Wisdom is generous. She gives true wealth. We can love many things. Some people love wine. But too much wine will kill them. Some people love money. But they can lose everything in a...
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....
THAT I MAY CAUSE THOSE THAT LOVE ME TO INHERIT SUBSTANCE. — The work which each one by my help shall do will be stored up for him in heaven (Matthew 6:20), it will be as “gold tried in the fire” (Reve...
לְ הַנְחִ֖יל אֹהֲבַ֥י ׀ יֵ֑שׁ וְ אֹצְרֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם...
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...
_Enrich. Hebrew, "grant what is (real goods) an inheritance to them," &c. --- Treasures. Septuagint add, "with goods. If I announce to you daily occurrences, I will admonish you to number the things o...
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my re...
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...
THAT I MAY CAUSE THOSE THAT LOVE ME TO INHERIT SUBSTANCE,.... Substantial blessings, blessings indeed, as all spiritual ones are; and substantial grace, as every grace is; and substantial communion wi...
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. Ver. 21. _To inherit substance._] Heb., That which is; that which hath some tack or substance in it, some fi...
_I lead in the way of righteousness_ In the way of truth, justice, and mercy, of holiness and happiness; the way in which God would have men to walk, and which will certainly bring them to the desired...
that I may cause those that love Me to inherit substance, true and lasting blessings; AND I WILL FILL THEIR TREASURES, giving them possessions which outlast this world, the happiness of those who are...
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...
12-21 Wisdom, here is Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word, and Christ in the heart; not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. All...
SUBSTANCE; substantial, and true, and satisfying happiness; which is here opposed to all worldly enjoyments which are said not to be, PROVERBS 23:5; which are but mere shadows and dreams of felicity....
Proverbs 8:21 love H157 (H8802) inherit H5157 (H8687) wealth H3426 fill H4390 (H8762) treasuries H214...
4). WISDOM GIVES RICHES AND HONOUR BOTH PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY TO THOSE WHO LOVE HER, AND ENABLES MEN TO WALK RIGHTLY (PROVERBS 8:18). Wisdom does not just enable rulers. She also gives durable ri...
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...
_That I may cause them that love Me to inherit substance._ MAN’S ENRICHMENT BY GOD I. Love--the love of God as the source of every blessing. II. The love of created being is excited by some good, r...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:18 Within a just society, the wise person will often enjoy RICHES AND HONOR. But wisdom gives something even greater: an ENDURING WEALTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, a f
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:17. EARLY, _i.e._, “earnestly” (see on ch. Proverbs 1:28). PROVERBS 8:18. DURABLE. Zöckler thinks this rather signifies “growing.”...
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...
1 Peter 1:4; 1 Samuel 2:8; Ephesians 3:19; Ephesians 3:20; Genesis 15:1