Proverbs 1:1

The Title. Chap. Proverbs 1:1

1. proverbs Properly resemblances. Here used of (1) short, pithy sentences, either couched in the form of a similitude, or comparison, or gathering up under their common principle or issue classes of events or actions, which resembleone another in the identity of that principle or issue; such proverbsforming the bulk of the Book from the 10th chapter to the end: (2) longer and more elaborate didactic addresses, such as are contained in the first nine Chapter s of the Book, and occasionally interspersed in its later portions. See Introd. ch. ii. p. 18.

of Solomon This does not mean that Solomon was the author of the whole Book, for parts of it are distinctly ascribed to other authors (Proverbs 24:23; Proverbs 30:1; Proverbs 31:1), but that in the main it proceeds from him, and that he is the acknowledged father of this kind of Hebrew literature. See Introd. ch. iii. p. 25.