Proverbs 4:1
The words “ye children” indicate as usual a new section returning, after the break of Proverbs 3:27, to the old strain of fatherly counsel.... [ Continue Reading ]
The words “ye children” indicate as usual a new section returning, after the break of Proverbs 3:27, to the old strain of fatherly counsel.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOCTRINE - Knowledge orally given and received.... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably the words of Solomon himself, who looks back from his glorious throne and his matured wisdom to the training which was the starting point. The part taken by Bathsheba in 1 Kings 1, no less than the friendship between her and Nathan, indicates that a mother’s training might well have laid th... [ Continue Reading ]
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1; Psalms 24:1; Psalms 37. Proverbs 4:7 Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEALTH - See the Proverbs 3:8 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
Better, as in the margin, i. e., with more vigilance than men use over anything else. The words that follow carry on the same similitude. The fountains and wells of the East were watched over with special care. The heart is such a fountain, out of it flow the “issues” of life. Shall men let those st... [ Continue Reading ]
Speech turned from its true purpose, the wandering eye that leads on to evil, action hasty and inconsiderate, are the natural results where we do not “above all keeping keep our heart” Proverbs 4:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
The ever-recurring image of the straight road on which no one ever loses his way represents here as elsewhere the onward course through life of the man who seeks and finds wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]