Proverbs 30:6

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. ADD THOU NOT UNTO HIS WORDS - "above that which is written" (), with a view of completing the divinely revealed doctrine with human glosses. Rome, by adding to the written Word, oral tradition and the Fathers, transgresses this precept ()....

Verse Proverbs 30:6. _ADD NOT THOU UNTO HIS WORDS_] You can no more increase their _value_ by any _addition_, than you can that of _gold_ by adding any _other metal to it_. Take care that you _do not_ any thing that this word _forbids_, nor leave _undone_ any thing that it _commands_: for this is _adding_ and _diminishing_ in Scripture phrase. _LEST HE REPROVE THEE_] Lest he try _thy word by fire_, as his has been tried; and it appear that, far from _abiding_ the test, the _fire_ shows thine to be _reprobate silver_; and so thou be found a _falsifier of God's word_, and a _liar_. How amply has this been fulfilled in the case of the _Romish_ _Church_! It has _added_ all the _gross stuff_ in the _Apocrypha_, besides innumerable legends

Men are not to mingle revealed truth with their own imaginations and traditions. In speculating on the unseen, the risk of error is indefinitely great, and that error God reproves by manifesting its falsehoods....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 30:1 PART VII. FIRST APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION, containing "the words of Agur." A short introduction, teaching that the Word of God is the source of wisdom (Proverbs 30:1), is followed by apothegms on different subjects (Proverbs 30:7). Cornelius a Lapide offers the following opinion concerning this appendix, which no one can hesitate to say is well founded, if he attempts to give it a spiritual interpretation, and to discern mysteries under the literal meaning: "Quarta haec pars elegantissima est et pulcherrima, aeque ac diffic

ADD THOU NOT UNTO HIS WORDS,.... To the words of God; as the Jews did, by joining their oral law, or the traditions of the elders, to the written word, and preferring them before it; and as the Papists, by making their unwritten traditions, and the sense and determinations of their church, equal to the Scriptures; and as all enthusiasts do, who set up their pretended dreams, visions, revelations, and prophecies, upon a foot with the word of God, or as superior to it; whereas that is, and that only, the rule and standard of faith and practice, and is a sufficient and perfect one; see Deuteronomy 4:2; LEST HE REPROVE THEE; that is, God; either by words or by blows, by threatenings and denunciations of his wrath and displeasure; or by chastisements and corrections for such daring pride, blasphemy, and wickedness; those who add to his words, he threatens to add plagues unt

VI. THE WORDS OF AGUR THE SON OF JAKEH CHAPTER 30 Some hold that Agur is another name for Solomon. This opinion is also upheld by the Talmud, which speaks of six names which belonged to the King: Solomon, Jedidiah, Koheleth, Son of Jakeh, Agur and Lemuel. But this opinion cannot be verified, nor do we know who Agur the son of Jakeh was. The Septuagint and the Vulgate have translated the Hebrew words and formed a sentence out of them. “Agur” means “assembler” and Jakeh has the meaning of “pious,” so that some think that Agur means an unknown godly man who gathered these sayings and they were embodied in this book. We leave the name as it is, and believe that Agur, the son of Jakeh, is the name of the author of this chapter. “Whoever Agur was, he had a certain marked individuality; he combines meditation on lofty questions of theology with a sound theory of practical life. He was able to...

PROVERBS 30. THE SAYINGS OF AGUR. It is uncertain whether the title embraces the whole chapter or Proverbs 30:1, or Proverbs 30:1 only. Proverbs 30:1. The title is extremely obscure, and has been much discussed. The VSS show a wide divergence in their interpretation. It is perhaps simplest to accept the title as referring to some sage of repute among the Wisdom circles in the Greek period. Proverbs 30:1 b has been interpreted in many ways, the proper names being taken as significant words. The most interesting is that which represents the sage as saying (_cf. mg.),_ I have wearied myself, O God, I ha

ADD THOU NOT, &C.. solemn warning based on Deuteronomy 4:2; Deuteronomy 12:32. Compare Galatians 1:1; Galatians 1:8; Galatians 1:9; Revelation 22:18; Revelation 22:19. REPROVE THEE. Emphatic. send. special reproof unto thee....

_Add thou not_ Do not mix with the pure silver of His words the dross of human speculations. "Noli investigare res quæ mentem humanam transcendunt (Proverbs 30:4), ut doctrinam divinitus patefactam inde compleas." Maurer. Proverbs 30:7. To the profitable reception of this word of God two things are necessary: first there must be "an honest and good heart," and next there must be a lot removed from the dangerous extremes of wealth and poverty. For these two things therefore he prays earnestly....

ADD THOU NOT UNTO HIS WORDS— That is, "Do not any thing contrary to what he commands." See Deuteronomy 4:2, &c....