Proverbs 8:1
What meaning of the proverbs 8:1 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 8:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?"
What does Proverbs 8:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?"
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 blessedn...
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 he...
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 (Proverb...
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 profoun...
WISDOM. Hebrew. _chokmah =_ wisdom personified. Compare Proverbs 8:12....
Proverbs 8:1. _The call of Wisdom_. Comp. Proverbs 1:20-21....
DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY, &C.— We may consider this chapter as connected with the preceding, and making one continued discourse. The wise man has represented in what goes before, the dangerous seductions o...
CHAPTER 8 TEXT Proverbs 8:1-11 1. Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice? 2. On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth; 3. Beside the gates,...
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, a...
WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...
This is the second of Solomon’s three great poems. Wisdom, like a woman, gives a speech to all the people. In verse 1, there are not two women. Wisdom is one woman, but she has two names. Her names a...
VIII. (_n_)_. Fourteenth Discourse_: — _The Praise of Wisdom_ (Proverbs 8) (1) DOTH NOT WISDOM CRY? — See above on Proverbs 1:20. In contrast with the secret allurements of Vice under the cover of n...
הֲ לֹֽא ־חָכְמָ֥ה תִקְרָ֑א וּ֝ תְבוּנָ֗ה תִּתֵּ֥ן קֹולָֽהּ׃...
CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...
“BETTER THAN GOLD” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a Pr...
The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...
Doth not (a) wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? (a) Solomon declares that man is the cause of his own perdition and that he cannot pretend ignorance, for God calls all men by his word...
_Voice. Men are wanting to themselves: they cannot plead ignorance. (Calmet) --- Wisdom stands on high in the Catholic Church inviting all to virtue and happiness. (Worthington) --- Some explain this...
CONTENTS. We have in this Chapter a most sublime account of some ancient events in eternity, and which, under the character of wisdom, the great speaker is calling upon the church to attend to. From...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
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, cha...
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Ver. 1. _Doth not wisdom cry?_] And shall a harlot be sooner heard than she? Shall men prefer dross before gold, acorns before wheat, a swi...
_Doth not wisdom cry_ It is a great question what this wisdom is, of which Solomon discourses so largely and profoundly in this chapter. Some understand it of that attribute or perfection of the divin...
Doth not Wisdom cry, calling aloud to men to hear, AND UNDERSTANDING PUT FORTH HER VOICE, in an effort to reach all men?...
To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...
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...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8 Wisdom's fame, call, and exhortation, PROVERBS 8:1. Her excellency, nature, and hatred of evil, PROVERBS 8:10. Her power, PROVERBS 8:14; and love to the godly, PROVERBS 8:17. Her ri...
Proverbs 8:1 wisdom H2451 out H7121 (H8799) understanding H8394 up H5414 (H8799) voice H6963 Proverbs 1:20-21, Proverbs 9:1-3; Isaiah 49:1-6, Isaiah 55:1-3; Matthew 3:3,...
1). WISDOM CALLS ON MEN TO HEAR HER (PROVERBS 8:1). Wisdom had been defined for us earlier in the Prologue. She is based on ‘the fear of YHWH' (Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 2:5; Proverbs 9:10). She is give...
CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...
Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...
_Doth not Wisdom cry _ THE PERSONIFICATION OF WISDOM Whatever may have been the satisfaction experienced by devout minds in reading this chapter, as if it contained the words of Christ and evidence...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PLACES OF THE PATHS “in the midst of the highways.” “These ways are roads, solitary paths, not streets in the city, and the delineation proceeds in such an order as to exhibit Wisdom...
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 gre...
In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
Acts 1:8; Acts 22:21; Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 55:1; John 7:37; Luke 24:47; Mark 13:10; Mark 16:15; Mark 16:16; Matthew 28:19;...
Wisdom — It is a great question what this wisdom is. Some understand it of the Divine wisdom; others of the second person in the Godhead: and it cannot be denied that some passages best agree to the f...