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Verse Proverbs 26:3. _A WHIP FOR THE HORSE_] Correction is as suitable
to a fool, as a _whip_ is for a horse, or a _bridle_ for an ass....
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CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD
Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different
words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which
signifies weakness....
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THE BOOK OF FOOLS. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets
dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2). The text is unusually
corrupt and defective.
PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...
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THE FOOL'S BACK. the back of fools....
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CHAPTER 26
TEXT Proverbs 26:1-9
1.
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,
So honor is not seemly for a fool.
2.
As a sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying,
So the curse that...
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's
back.
A WHIP FOR THE HORSE, A BRIDLE FOR THE ASS. So the Vulgate: but the
Chaldaic, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic translate, 'a...
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FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS
1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
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שֹׁ֣וט לַ֭ † סּוּס מֶ֣תֶג לַ †...
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CHAPTER 27
THE FOOL
"As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for
a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...
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Verse Proverbs 26:2. Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is
unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm.
Verses Proverbs 26:3. In this group of proverbs the fool is the
subject. The...
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_Snaffle. "Bit," or muzzle, ( camus) to prevent the animal from
biting. (Haydock) --- Septuagint, Arabic, &c., "a goad for an ass."
But metheg denotes a bridle. (Montanus; Haydock) asses being there
v...
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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 WHIP FOR THE HORSE,.... One that is dull of going, or refractory and
wants breaking;
A BRIDLE FOR THE ASS; not to curb and restrain it from going too fist,
asses being generally dull; but to direct...
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's
back.
Ver. 3. _A whip for the horse,_] viz., To quicken his slow pace. "A
bridle for the ass," wherewith to lead him in the right...
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, both being necessary in
the case of irrational brutes in order to keep them under control, AND
A ROD FOR THE FOOL'S BACK, for only by force can he be direct...
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CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
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THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the
work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to
the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....
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A BRIDLE was very proper and usual for an ass, when they rode upon it,
(as the Jews most commonly did,) though not to restrain him from
running away, which is the principal use of it in horses, yet th...
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Proverbs 26:3 whip H7752 horse H5483 bridle H4964 donkey H2543 rod
H7626 fools H3684 back H1460...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two
ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and
hear mor...
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Proverbs 26:1. _As snow in summer,_ which beats down the fruits; _and
as rain in harvest,_ which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is
honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...
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_A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
fool’s back._
ASPECTS OF A FOOL
Sin is folly. It sacrifices the spiritual for the material, the
temporal for the eternal, the pure joys...
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_As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly
for a fool _
HONOUR PAID TO THE WICKED UNSEEMLY AND PERNICIOUS
The respect which man pays his fellow is often grounded on reasons...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 26:3. To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned
respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembered that the
Eastern ass is often quite as spirited an...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 26:1
Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception,
perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
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Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening.
The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to
any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...
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1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Corinthians 13:2; Judges
8:5;...