Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. TRAIN UP (LITERALLY, INITIATE: DEDICATE, AS A HOUSE, NUMBERS 7:10-4 ; OR TEMPLE 1 KINGS 8:63 : HEBREW, CHANAK) A CHILD IN (HEBREW, ACCORDING TO) THE WAY HE SHOULD GO (HEBREW, HIS WAY); AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT. The child is to be initiated in the way of life from the earliest dawn of intelligence (2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15; Deuteronomy 6:7). Chi...

Verse Proverbs 22:6. _TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO_] The Hebrew of this clause is curious: חנך לנער על פי דרכו _chanoch lannaar al pi_ _darco_, "Initiate the child at the opening (the mouth) of his path." When he comes to the _opening of the way of life_, being able to walk alone, and to choose; stop at this entrance, and begin a series of instructions, how he is to conduct himself in every _step_ he takes. Show him the _duties_, the _dangers_, and the _blessings_ of the path; give him directions _how_ to _perform_ the _duties_, how to _escape_ the _dangers_, and how to _secure_ the _blessings_, which all lie before him. Fix these on his mind by _daily inculcation_, till their _impression_ is become _indelible_; then lead him to _practice_ by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, til...

TRAIN - Initiate, and so, educate. THE WAY HE SHOULD GO - Or, according to the tenor of his way, i. e., the path especially belonging to, especially fitted for, the individual’s character. The proverb enjoins the closest possible study of each child’s temperament and the adaptation of “his way of life” to that....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 22:1 A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES. It will be observed that "good" in the Authorized Version is in italics, showing that the epithet is not expressed in the Hebrew, which is simply שֵׁם (_shem_)_, _"name." But this word carried with it the notion of good repute, as in Ecclesiastes 7:1; for being well known implied honour and reputation, while being nameless (Job 30:8) signified not only obscurity, but ignominy and discredit. Hence the versions have ὄνομα καλόν_, nomen bonum, _and Ecclesiasticus 41:12, "Have regard to thy name (περὶ ὀνόματος)_, _for that shall continue with thee above a thousan

TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO,.... As Abraham trained up his children, and those born in his house, in the way of the Lord, in the paths of justice and judgment; which are the ways in which they should go, and which will be to their profit and advantage; see Genesis 14:14; and which is the duty of parents and masters in all ages, and under the present Gospel dispensation, even to bring such who are under their care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Ephesians 6:4; by praying with them and for them, by bringing them under the means of grace, the ministry of the word, by instructing them in the principles of religion, teaching them their duty to God and man, and setting them good examples of a holy life and conversation; and this is to be done according to their capacity, and

TRAIN UP A CHILD See (Ephesians 6:4); (2 Timothy 3:15)....

CHAPTER 22 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED Better than great riches, better than silver and gold is a name and loving favor. If a person has riches and a bad name and is not well thought of, he is less honorable than the poor man who has a name and good reputation. In Ecclesiastes, Solomon says: “A good name is better than precious ointment” Ecclesiastes 7:11). The third verse has a wise message: “The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.” The Lord has revealed in His Word the evil which is in store for the sinner and the impenitent. He also has prepared a hiding place, an ark of safety, in His Son, our Lord. The prudent believeth the Word and flees to the refuge; the simple, the unbelieving, pass on and suffer for it when the evil comes. Humility and the fear of the Lord has a reward, while thorns and snares are in the way of the

PROVERBS 22:6. IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO puts more into the Heb. than it contains. It is lit. train up a child in proportion to his way_ i.e._ train him suitably. The moral implication is absent. The stress is on the effect of training. Proverbs 22:11. RV hides disorder of MT. Read, probably, The king loves the pure in heart, grace of lips is his good pleasure. Proverbs 22:12 a is difficult. RV will not pass. The lit. Heb. is the eyes of Yahweh guard knowledge. The abstract knowledge in Heb. cannot mean its possessors; the eyes of Yahweh are nowhere said to guard anybody, and no Hebrew would say that the eyes of Yahweh guard knowledge in the sense of possessing it, nor does it give any

TRAIN UP. Hedge in: i.e. straiten him in, as cattle are guided. IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO. concerning his way. Hebrew at the mouth of his way: "mouth" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the opening or beginning of his way.. H. Spurgeon applied it to "the way you wish you had gone yourself"!...

_in the way he should go_ Lit. ACCORDING TO HIS WAY. The injunction contemplates not only the broad principles of education, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, which are the same for all, but their adaptation to each particular case, in a careful study of individual character and capacity, and with a thoughtful regard to future course of life: " HIS way....