Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 1:7
A motto for the whole book. True morality is based on a right relation to God. Fear is the keynote of OT. piety; not slavish terror, but reverence and humility.
A motto for the whole book. True morality is based on a right relation to God. Fear is the keynote of OT. piety; not slavish terror, but reverence and humility.
Verse Proverbs 1:7. _THE FEAR OF THE LORD_] In the preceding verses Solomon shows the _advantage_ of acting according to the dictates of wisdom; in the following verses he shows the _danger_ of actin...
The beginning of wisdom is found in the temper of reverence and awe. The fear of the finite in the presence of the Infinite, of the sinful in the presence of the Holy (compare Job 42:5), this for the...
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....
FEAR. reverence. This expression occurs fourteen times in Proverbs (Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 2:5; Proverbs 8:13;...
This verse stands out as the motto, or key-note, both of the whole Book, and of the whole subject of which the Book treats. I am offering, the writer would seem to say, to give you the right of enteri...
The Introduction. Chap. Proverbs 1:2-7 The Introduction consists of a statement of the object of the Book (Proverbs 1:2), which is primarily to instruct the young in Wisdom (Proverbs 1:4), but at the...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD— See Psalms 111:10. As the first lesson, the wise man tells us, that the fear of the Lord is the principle of wisdom. All wisdom which is not founded in religion, in the fear of G...
CHAPTER 1 TEXT Proverbs 1:1-9 1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2. To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; 3. To receive instruction in...
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. THE FEAR OF THE LORD (IS) THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE - the grand summary of the whole book (cf. , "The...
1:7 fools (o-10) _ Eveel_ . It is the generic word, but has two shades of meaning according as it is opposed to _ chakam_ , 'wise,' or _ aroom_ , 'prudent,' 'wary,' ch. 12.16. But the idea of 'wicked...
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...
When you learned English, you started with easy words. When you learn any subject, you must start with easy lessons. The first lesson in wisdom is that we must respect God. He made everything. He is g...
2. — FIFTEEN DIDACTIC POEMS, OR DISCOURSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS (Proverbs 1:7 to Proverbs 9:18). (_a_)_ First Discourse:_ — _Against Companionship in Robbery_ (Proverbs 1:7). (7) The fear of the Lord...
יִרְאַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה רֵאשִׁ֣ית דָּ֑עַת חָכְמָ֥ה וּ֝...
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 BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. _Wisdom_ as used in this book is more...
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;...
_Fear. Thus we arrive at charity. (St. Augustine, in ep. Jo. ix.; Job xxviii. 28., &c.) This fear includes religion, but not barren speculations. (Calmet) --- It implies a desire to act, and not simpl...
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowle...
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...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD [IS] THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE,.... Here properly the book begins, and this is the first of the proverbs, and an excellent one; it is such an one as is not to be found in all the...
_The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction._ Ver. 7. _The fear of the Lord is the beginning._] Or, The chief and principal point _a_ of wisdom,...
_The fear of the Lord_ That is, reverence for and obedience to God; _is the beginning of knowledge_ The foundation and source of it; without which all other knowledge is vain and useless. Mark well th...
A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
The fear of the Lord, the reverence of Jehovah flowing from childlike faith in Him, IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, the basis of all true wisdom, both in understanding the Word and will of the Lord and...
THE BEGINNING: Or, the principal part...
7-9 Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do,...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD; reverence and obedience to God, or his worship and service, as this word is commonly used. THE BEGINNING; either the foundation, or the top, and perfection, or chief point, witho...
Proverbs 1:7 fear H3374 LORD H3068 beginning H7225 knowledge H1847 fools H191 despise H936 (H8804) wisdom H2451 instruc
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROLOGUE (PROVERBS 1:1). The book commences with an introduction which explains its purpose in some depth. Its aim is to pass on ‘the sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of...
FEAR Also; (Proverbs 1:29); (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
Proverbs 1:7 Solomon grounds the fear of God, the basis of the whole religious life, upon the duty of obedience to parents. I. It is not mere children to whom he is speaking; he is addressing young...
Proverbs 1:7 I understand by the fear of the Lord an abiding and reverent sense of the presence of God and of accountableness to Him. And in order for this to exist, God must not be the creature of ea...
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...
_The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge._ THE FIRST RUDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE The fear of the Lord is an abiding and reverent sense of the presence of God and of accountableness to Him: For...
_The proverbs of Solomon._ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 1. The book does not consist of proverbs entirely. Much of it is the language of pious exhortation and spiritual precept. 2. The book contains many w...
PROVERBS 1:1 Title, Goal, and Motto. After the title (v. Proverbs 1:1), there is an introduction that describes the goal of the whole book (vv....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:7 THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE. This is the core truth of the book: the quest for wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord (see...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:7. FOOLS, derived from a word meaning to be gross and dull of understanding. Gesenius understands it to signify “one who turns away,” the “perverse.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF...
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...
Ecclesiastes 12:13; Job 28:28; John 3:18; Proverbs 9:10; Proverbs 1
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON Proverbs 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give thee...
The fear — Reverence and obedience to God. Beginning — The foundation without which all other knowledge is vain. Fools — That is, wicked men, are so far from attaining true wisdom, that they despise i...