Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL - without butter or oil (). THAN A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES - victims, part of which were offered in sacrifice and the rest feasted upon. The choicest beasts were need in sacrifice, so that their flesh would be of the best kind. WITH STRIFE - (.)...

CHAPTER XVII _Contentment. The wise servant. The Lord tries the heart._ _Children a crown to their parents. We should hide our_ _neighbour's faults. The poor should not be despised._ _Litigations and quarrels to be avoided. Wealth is useless to_ _a fool. The good friend. A fool may pass for a wise man when_ _he holds his peace._ NOTES ON CHAP. XVII Verse Proverbs 17:1. _BETTER_ IS _A DRY MORSEL_] Peace and contentment, and especially _domestic peace_, are beyond all other blessings. A house full of sacrifi

SACRIFICES - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices” was therefore one abounding in sumptuous feasts....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) BETTER (sweeter) IS A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH. Dry bread was soaked in wine or water before it was eaten. Thus Boaz bid Ruth "dip her morsel in the vinegar" (Ruth 2:14); thus Jesus gave the sop to Judas when he had dipped it (John 13:26). The Septuagint is pleonastic, "Better is a morsel with joy in peace." Ab

BETTER [IS] A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH,.... A small quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies; which has been long broken off, and become "dry" x; a dry crust of bread; old bread, as the Arabic version; an old, mouldy, dry piece of bread: and the word used has the signification of destruction in it: bread that has lost its taste and virtue; or, however, a mere piece of bread is meant, without anything to eat with it, as Gersom, butter, cheese, or flesh: this, with quietness and peace among those that partake of it, peace in the family, in a man's own mind, especially if he has the peace of God, which passeth all understanding; this is better THAN A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES [WITH] STRIFE; than a house ever so well furnished with good cheer, or a table ever so richly spread; or where there is plenty of slain beasts for food, or for sacrifice, which wer...

CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs 17:3). Man may try silver and gold, but God only the hearts. And He tries the hearts by the refining process, trials and afflictions, the process which rests in His own hands. (See Psalms 66:10; Malachi 3:3; 1 Peter 1:7 .) “He that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends” (Proverbs 17:9). To

PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes (Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test of friendship (Proverbs 17:17): also the subject of suretyship, dealt with in Proverbs 6:1, is resumed (Proverbs 17:18). PROVERBS 17:1. For the connexion betwee

BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11. SACRIFICES. slain beasts. Hebrew. _zebach._ App-43....

_sacrifices with strife_ Lit. SACRIFICES OF STRIFE, but better rendered, GOOD CHEER WITH STRIFE, A.V. marg.; or, FEASTING WITH STRIFE, R.V. text. This rendering, however, may be arrived at in either of two ways, (1) We may suppose that the ordinance of feasting on part of a sacrifice Leviticus 7:16; Leviticus 19:6-8) appealed so to the popular mind, that the restriction to "the place which the Lord their God should choose" (Deuteronomy 12:4-14) came to be neglected, and as is too commonly the case, with Christmas, for example, in our own day, the word which should have denoted a religious act before God, sank down to mean a mere worldly feast at home. (2) But it may be doubted wh

A DRY MORSEL— _Bread with pulse,_ or _husks._ Bochart and Houbigant. This was the food of meaner persons; whence Horace says, Epist. 1: lib. 2: line 123. _Vivit siliquis et pane secundo:_ Lives on coarse bread and vegetable fare. DUNCOMBE. This verse is plainly similar to the 16th and 17th of chap. 15:...