Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. WHOSO LOVETH INSTRUCTION (HEBREW, DISCIPLINARY INSTRUCTION) LOVETH KNOWLEDGE: BUT HE THAT HATETH REPROOF IS BRUTISH - (Proverbs 3:11; .) The believer 'loveth disciplinary chastening,' not for its own sake, but for the sake of that which is its effect-namely, our being made partaken of God's holiness: just as we love the physician who lances a festering sore, or the bitter medicine which heals us (Hebrews 12:10). To hate "reproof," which is designed for our good (), is to be like the "brute," which looks not beyond the pain or the...

CHAPTER XII _Of the benefit of instruction, and the cultivation of piety._ _The virtuous woman. The different lot of the just and unjust._ _The humane man. The industrious man. The fool and the wise man._ _The uncharitable. The excellence of the righteous. The slothful_ _is in want. Righteousness leads to life, c._ NOTES ON CHAP. XII Verse Proverbs 12:1. _WHOSO LOVETH INSTRUCTION_] מוסר _musar_, discipline or correction, _loves knowledge_ for correction is the way to knowledge. _BUT HE THAT HATETH REPROOF_ IS _BRUTISH._] בער _baar_,

BRUTISH - Dumb as a brute beast. The difference between man and brute lies chiefly in the capacity of the former for progress and improvement, and that capacity depends upon his willingness to submit to discipline and education. Compare Psalms 49:12....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 12:1 INSTRUCTION; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and opens his mind to receive _knowledge, _especially the knowledge of himself and of all moral obligations. IS BRUTISH; is as insensible to higher aspirations, to regret for the past or hope of amendment, as a brute beast (comp. Proverbs 30:2). On this point St. Augustine is quoted: "Quicumque corripi non vis, ex eo sane corripiendus es quia corripi non vis. Non vis enim tua tibi vitia demonstrari; non vis ut feriantur, fiatque tibi utilis dolor, quo medicum quaeras; non vis tibi tu ipse ostendi, ut cum deformem te vides, reformaturum desideres, eique supplices ne in illa remaneas foeditate

WHOSE LOVETH INSTRUCTION LOVETH KNOWLEDGE,.... That loves the instruction of Wisdom, or Christ, Proverbs 4:13; the means of instruction, the Scriptures, which are profitable for instruction in righteousness, and are written for our learning; the Gospel, which instructs into the person, office, and grace of Christ; the ministers of the word, who are so many instructors in Christ; and even the rod of afflictions, by which men are taught their duty, and the will of God: and these are to be loved; and he that loves them clearly shows that he loves knowledge; since the means of instruction, making use of them, and getting instruction by them, are attended with labour, trouble, and difficulty; which a man would not choose, had he not a love unto and a desire after knowledge, and an increase of it; as the knowledge of God, of Christ, and of his truths. Aben Ezra inverts the words; "he

CHAPTER 12 THE CONTRAST IN RELATION TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS In these proverbs we have the righteous mentioned, his thoughts, his words, his domestic relationship, his attitude toward animal creation Proverbs 12:10); his diligence; all is contrasted with the wicked in these beautiful antithetic expressions of wisdom. The thoughts of the righteous are right Proverbs 12:5), because his heart is right; his words bring deliverance Proverbs 12:6); in speaking truth he showeth forth righteousness Proverbs 12:17); his tongue is health Proverbs 12:1

PROVERBS 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution (Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7; Proverbs 12:14; Proverbs 12:21; Proverbs 12:28). Several deal with speech (Proverbs 12:6; Proverbs 12:13; Proverbs 12:16;...

INSTRUCTION. discipline, or correction....

_instruction_ or, _correction_, R.V. text. See Proverbs 1:2, note....

WHOSO LOVETH INSTRUCTION— Or, according to others, _correction,_ or _reproof._ It is well observed, that if a man cannot endure to be told of his faults, it is a shrewd sign that he is in the way to be undone, and has not yet approached so much as to the gates of wisdom....