Proverbs 1:1

THE PROVERBS

-Year from the Creation, 3004. -Year before the birth of Christ, 996.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 1000.

-Year since the Deluge, according to Archbishop Usher and the English Bible, 1348.

-Year from the destruction of Troy, 185.

-Year before the first Olympiad, 224. -Year before the building of Rome, 247.

CHAPTER I

The design of the proverbs, 1-6.

An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word, because of

the benefit to be derived from it, 7-9;

to avoid the company of wicked men, who involve themselves in

wretchedness and ruin, 10-19.

Wisdom, personified, cries in the streets, and complains of the

contempt with which she is treated, 20-23.

The dreadful punishment that awaits all those who refuse her

counsels, 24-33.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Proverbs 1:1. The proverbs of Solomon] For the meaning of the word proverb, see the introduction; and the dissertation upon parabolical writing at the end of the notes on Matthew 13:58. Solomon is the first of the sacred writers whose name stands at the head of his works.