Proverbs 8:1

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Proverbs 8:1.-Wisdom herself openly cries in all places, inviting men to her (Proverbs 8:1). Her invitation: Unto you men I call; hear, and you shall know right things-truth, righteousness, instruction superior to silver and gold, the fear of the Lord, counsel, wisdom, strength; all to be had by lovingly and early seeking me-riches and honour in the way of righteousness whereby I lead (Proverbs 8:4). I am older than the world itself, and was by God when He made it, and was His daily delight, and I in my turn delighted in the habitable earth and in the sons of men ...

1-11 The will of God is made known by the works of creation, and by the consciences of men, but more clearly by Moses and the prophets. The chief difficulty is to get men to attend to instruction. Yet attention to the words of Christ, will guide the most ignorant into saving knowledge of the truth. Where there is an understanding heart, and willingness to receive the truth in love, wisdom is valued above silver and gold....

CHAPTER VIII _The fame and excellence of wisdom, and its manner of teaching_, 1-4; _the matter of its exhortations_, 5-12; _its influence among men_, 13-21; _its antiquity_, 22-31; _the blessedness of attending to its counsels_, 32-35; _the misery of those who do not_, 36. NOTES ON CHAP. VIII. Verse Proverbs 8:1. _DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?_] Here wisdom is again _personified_; but the _prosopopoeia_ is carried on to a greater length than before, and with much more variety. It is represented in this chapter in a tw

A companion picture to that in Proverbs 7, and serving in some measure to generalize and idealize it. Wisdom also calls Proverbs 8:5 to the “simple” and the “fools,” and they have to choose between her voice and that of the temptress....

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 greatness of the blessings which she offers exhibits in the most marked manner the nothingness of the deceiver's gifts. One is reminded of the celebrated episode of the choice of Hercules, delineated by Xenophon, 'Memorab.,' 2.1. 21, etc. The chapter divides itself into four sections. (1) Introductory (Proverbs 7:1); Wisdom calls on all to listen, and gives reasons for trusting to her ...

DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY?.... Christ, who is the Wisdom of God; Proverbs 1:20; and which clearly appears from his subsistence with the Father, his eternal existence, and from many personal properties, characters, and actions ascribed to him throughout the whole of this chapter, and in the following. "Crying" is here attributed to him, which signifies proclaiming, publishing, preaching the everlasting Gospel, which directs men in the right way of enjoying peace, comfort, honour, and eternal happiness; the allusion is to an herald that this up his voice aloud at noon day in the public streets when he proclaims; and is opposed to the whispers of a harlot, at night, in a corner; truth seeks no corner, its voice is heard at noon day, it will bear the light. Now, "does not" or "shall not Wisdom cry", or Christ preach; verily he does or will, in his word, by his prophets under the former d

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 8:32) Proverbs 8:1. This is one of the most interesting Chapter s in the entire book. It begins with a call and appeal of wisdom, much like the call and appeal of the first chapter. If wisdom calls, has a voice, then wisdom must also be a person. Who personified wisdom is we learn most blessedly in this chapt

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 profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1 with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller discussion especially Cheyne, _Job and Solomon,_ pp. 156f.). The relation of the conception of Wisdom personified to the Stoic Logos and to Greek philosophy in general cannot be discussed here. (See _Wisdom Literature_ in HDB, and especially the excellent introduction by Holmes to the Book of Wisdom in Charles-' _Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha._) The two main lines of development of this conception in H

WISDOM. Hebrew. _chokmah =_ wisdom personified. Compare Proverbs 8:12....

Proverbs 8:1. _The call of Wisdom_. Comp. Proverbs 1:20-21....