Proverbs 3:1
LAW] or 'direction.' The teacher speaks as one having authority.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAW] or 'direction.' The teacher speaks as one having authority.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20, declares the profitableness of divine chastening and the value of wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
MERCY] RM 'kindness.' He is to retain kindness and faithfulness, as he would the signet-ring which hangs from his neck by a cord (Genesis 38:18; Song of Solomon 8:6), or as the phylacteries on arm and forehead: cp. Exodus 13:9; Deuteronomy 6:8; Deuteronomy 11:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
We are easily misled by passion and sin. 'Thanks to our wisdom, we should, once for all, refrain from being clever.'... [ Continue Reading ]
For navel read 'flesh,' as at Proverbs 4:22. This change only requires the addition of a single letter, and it gives us the pair,' flesh and bones,' which in biblical language make up the body (Genesis 29:14; 2 Samuel 5:1, etc.). The drying up of the bones is a figure of extreme distress (Proverbs 1... [ Continue Reading ]
TO HONOUR is to pay the dues (Isaiah 43:28; Daniel 11:38; 1 Timothy 5:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
PRESSES] i.e. 'vats.' 11, 12. Bp. Andrewes prayed: 'From Thine anger, and yet more from Thy ceasing to be angry, good Lord, deliver us.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RUBIES] here, and at Proverbs 20:15; Proverbs 31:10, more probably, 'red coral.' The finest red coral has always been very costly.... [ Continue Reading ]
A TREE OF LIFE] a figure derived from Genesis 3 : see also Ezekiel 47:12; Proverbs 11:30; Proverbs 13:12; Proverbs 15:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is an additional reason for esteeming her, that creation could not have been accomplished without her.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEPTHS, etc.] i.e. the subterranean storehouses from which fountains and rivers were supposed to be derived.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not affrighted by horrible dreams (Job 7:14).... [ Continue Reading ]
SECURELY] i.e. without suspicion.... [ Continue Reading ]
SECRET] 'counsel' or 'friendship' (RM): they belong to His 'Privy Council' (Genesis 18:17; Job 19:19; Job 29:4; Psalms 25:14; Psalms 55:14; Amos 3:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
Joseph, Daniel, Ezra, Mordecai are examples.... [ Continue Reading ]