Verse Proverbs 8:32. Now therefore] Since I delight so much in conveying instruction; since I have the happiness of the children of Adam so much at heart, hearken unto me; and this is for your own interest, for blessed are they who keep my ways.
The old exhortation with a new force. The counsels are no longer those of prudence and human experience, but of a Wisdom eternal as Yahweh, ordering all things....
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...
PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...
CHILDREN. sons. BLESSED. happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13....
Proverbs 8:32. The consequent Appeal of Wisdom 32. _Now, therefore_ Because I give, and am, all this; and because in and from their first creation my delight was and is with the sons of men. _O ye c...
DISCOURSE: 770 WISDOM’S ADDRESS TO MEN Proverbs 8:29. _When he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always befo...
TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36 22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. 23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24. When there...
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Epilogue, Peroration, or concluding summary. NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN UNTO ME - seeing that such are my excellen...
WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
The woman, Wisdom, asks us to listen to her. She will bless us. She will teach us to be wise. We must not refuse her advice....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN — _i.e._, now that ye know how great my power is, and what love I have to you, in that I rejoice in you, and call you my sons. (Comp. 1 John 3:1.)...
וְ עַתָּ֣ה בָ֭נִים שִׁמְעוּ ־לִ֑י וְ֝ אַשְׁרֵ
CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
FINDING WISDOM, FINDING LIFE Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by _chance_. It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression of th...
The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,...
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...
NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN UNTO ME, O YE CHILDREN,.... Children of his and his Father, with whom his delights were; predestinated to the adoption of children; children of the covenant and promise, given to...
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways. Ver. 32. _Now therefore hearken unto me._] _Audite senem iuvenes,_ said Augustus to his seditious soldiers, and...
_Now therefore hearken_, &c. Seeing I have a true love to you, and seeing I am so thoroughly acquainted with my Father's mind, and so excellently qualified to be your Counsellor and Ruler; _hear instr...
Now, therefore, hearken unto Me, O ye children; for blessed are they that keep My ways, fashioning their entire conduct in life in agreement with the instruction given in the Word of God....
THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
32-36 Surely we should hearken to Christ's voice with the readiness of children. Let us all be wise, and not refuse such mercy. Blessed are those who hear the Saviour's voice, and wait on him with da...
NOW THEREFORE; seeing I have such a true love to you, and seeing I am so thoroughly acquainted with my Father's mind, and so excellently qualified to be your Counsellor and Ruler....
Proverbs 8:32 listen H8085 (H8798) children H1121 blessed H835 keep H8104 (H8799) ways H1870 for -...
6). WISDOM BRINGS BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR HER FOR THROUGH HER THEY FIND LIFE AND COME INTO THE FAVOUR OF GOD (PROVERBS 8:32). Because her delight was with the sons of men Wisdom calls on men to lis...
CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...
Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
_Blessed are they that keep My ways._ THE CLAIMS OF DIVINE WISDOM I. These are very simple. 1. Diligently study its counsels. 2. Constantly obey its precepts. The teachings of Divine Wisdom arc no...
_The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way._ WISDOM THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--an id...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:32 O SONS draws together all of Wisdom’s paternal appeals to highlight the benefits of wisdom for faithful covenant living. ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH. Those who practice w...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:36. SINNETH AGAINST, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch, and Miller. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:32_ EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WI...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
Luke 11:28; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 119:1; Psalms 119:2; Psalms 128:1...