Turn, &c.. Turn [and listen to] my reproof.
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos (App-6), to emphasize the conditional promise.
spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject) for all spiritual blessings.
Verse Proverbs 1:23. _TURN YOU AT MY REPROOF_] לתוכחתי _lethochachti_, at my _convincing mode_ of _arguing_; attend to my _demonstrations_. This is properly the meaning of the original word. _I WILL...
The teaching of Divine Wisdom is essentially the same as that of the Divine Word John 7:38. “Turning,” repentance and conversion, this is what she calls the simple to. The promise of the Spirit is als...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To int...
PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
We have here the germ both of later prophecies (Isaiah 44:3; Joel 2:28 [Hebrews 3:1]), and of their fulfilment in Christ (John 7:37-39;...
DISCOURSE: 753 THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openi...
BEHOLD I WILL POUR OUT, &C.— _I will communicate my Spirit to you, and cause you to comprehend my words._ "I will open my heart, explain my sentiments, set my counsels before your eyes: I demand only...
TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33 20. Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; 21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city...
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. TURN YOU AT MY REPROOF - to the God from whom ye have turned away. BEHOLD, I WILL POUR OU...
The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge. I...
Turn and listen whilst I declare my purpose. 31. Mediæval theologians taught that molten gold would be poured down the throats of the avaricious in hell and that other vices also would be punished in...
THE WOMAN CALLED WISDOM In his second story, Solomon tells us about a woman. This woman’s name is Wisdom. The woman is upset, and she is angry. This is why she shouts. Her children are not obeying...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UNTO YOU. — Comp. the prophecy of Joel 2:28, promised by our Lord (John 7:38), and fulfilled at Pentecost (Acts 2:17). I WILL MAKE KNOWN MY WORDS UNTO YOU. — For a similar pr...
תָּשׁ֗וּבוּ לְֽ תֹ֫וכַחְתִּ֥י הִנֵּ֤ה אַבִּ֣יעָה לָכֶ֣ם...
CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is understa...
THE CALL OF WISDOM Proverbs 1:20-33 The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our Lord, who, as the Word o...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
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...
TURN YE AT MY REPROOF,.... Or rather "to my reproof", for the words are not an exhortation to the conversion of the heart, or to him repentance; but to an attendance to the external ministry of the wo...
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Ver. 23. _Turn you at my reproof._] He that reproves, and then directs not how to do better, i...
_How long, ye simple ones_ Ye ignorant, careless, and credulous persons, who are so easily deceived by sin and sinners, and cheated and deluded by the world, and the god of it, and do not understand o...
THE INVITATION OF WISDOM...
Turn you at my reproof, from the evil and perverse way which they were then following. BEHOLD, I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UNTO YOU, in abundant fullness and refreshing power; I WILL MAKE KNOWN MY WORDS...
20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...
TURN YE from your evil courses unto me. AT MY REPROOF; upon this admonition here given to you. _I will pour out_; if you will do so, I will freely and abundantly impart unto you. MY SPIRIT; either my...
Proverbs 1:23 Turn H7725 (H8799) rebuke H8433 out H5042 (H8686) spirit H7307 words H1697 known H3045 ...
WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT TO BE HEARD, LONGING FOR RESPONSE, PROMISING INCULCATION OF HER OWN SPIRIT, AND WARNING OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (PROVERBS 1:20). We have here the first of the w...
WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT IN LONGING THAT PEOPLE WILL RESPOND TO HER WORDS AND GAIN FROM WHAT SHE OFFERS (PROVERBS 1:20). Wisdom is now personified as a woman crying out to people to respond to...
DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
Proverbs 1:23 I. Observe carefully what it is which God here requires from the scornful and the simple. He prescribes none of those lofty performances which in other parts of Scripture are distinctly...
CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
_Wisdom crieth without _ THE VOICE OF TRUE WISDOM The Lord Jesus Christ is the true Wisdom which speaks to the sons of men. The ancients were accustomed to speak of their religion as wisdom or phil...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew. PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.” PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
Acts 2:36; Acts 26:20; Acts 3:19; Ezekiel 18:27; Ezekiel 33:11;...
WISDOM'S CALL Proverbs 1:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered circles, whe...
My words — By my spirit I will cause you to understand my word....