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FALLING DOWN BEFORE - i. e., Yielding and cringing. To see this
instead of stedfastness, is as grievous as for the traveler to find
the spring at which he hoped to quench his thirst turbid and defiled...
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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...
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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...
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TROUBLED. trampled, or fouled....
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_falling down_ Better, with R.V., THAT GIVETH WAY, or (marg.) IS
MOVED. To see a righteous man moved from his stedfastness through fear
or favour in the presence of the wicked is as disheartening, as...
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AND A CORRUPT SPRING— See the note on 2 Chronicles 32:4. Besides the
methods of stopping up wells and breaking down cisterns there
mentioned, the eastern people sometimes practised another way to
depr...
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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...
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A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled
fountain, and a corrupt spring. A righteous man falling down before
the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
A RIG...
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25:26 way (b-14) Lit. 'tottereth.'...
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COURTS. QUARRELS
1-7. relate to kings and courts....
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The fountain is troubled by the feet of animals (Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel
34:18)....
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A RIGHTEOUS MAN FALLING DOWN BEFORE THE WICKED... — The mouth of the
righteous was described (Proverbs 10:11) as a “well of life,” from
the comfort and refreshment it brings to the weary- through the...
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מַעְיָ֣ן נִ֭רְפָּשׂ וּ מָקֹ֣ור
מָשְׁחָ֑ת צַ֝דִּ֗יק...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Falling into disgrace, or sin, occasions the wicked to exult, as if
there were no God or religion. (Calmet)_...
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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...
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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...
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A RIGHTEOUS MAN FALLING DOZEN BEFORE THE WICKED,.... Either falling
into calamity and distress by means of the wicked man, through his
malice and cunning, and which be seeing, rejoices at; or crouchin...
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A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled
fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Ver. 26. _A righteous man falling down before the wicked,_] _i.e., _
Doing anything, though by mere f...
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_A righteous man falling down before the wicked_, &c. When a righteous
man is either allured or terrified into any sinful practice by wicked
men, or into any base and servile compliance with their hab...
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TRUE WISDOM THE HIGHEST GOOD OF KINGS AND SUBJECTS....
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A righteous man falling down before the wicked, wavering before the
craft of the wicked, lacking moral firmness, IS AS A TROUBLED FOUNTAIN
AND A CORRUPT SPRING, from either of which pure and healthy w...
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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, -...
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FALLING DOWN; either,
1. Into sin. So the sense is, When a just man is either allured or
terrified into any sinful practice before wicked men, or into any base
and servile compliance with their lusts,...
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Proverbs 25:26 righteous H6662 falters H4131 (H8801) before H6440
wicked H7563 murky H7515 (H8737) spring H4599
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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...
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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...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic
Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 25:26. FALLING DOWN—_i.e., “yielding_” or
“_wavering_.” CORRUPT. Rather “_Ruined_.”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 25:26_
THE EVIL RESULT OF MORAL COWARDICE
I. There can nev...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 22:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Chronicles 24:21; 2 Chronicles
24:22;...
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Falling — When righteous men are oppressed by the wicked, the state
of that common — wealth is as deplorable, as if the publick
fountains were corrupted....