Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: Proverbs 9:1.-Wisdom's preparations of her house and her banquet for the quests whom she invites by her maidens (Proverbs 9:1). To whom she gives invitation, and to what (Proverbs 9:4). Necessary preliminary to accepting it-namely, forsake the foolish, lest ye become scorners, seeing that reproof is thrown away upon a scorner, and is laid out to good account by the wise alone (Proverbs 9:6). Wisdom's first principle is the fear of the Lord, which issues in life for the benefit of the wise; while the fool's scorning shall fall on hi...

1-12 Christ has prepared ordinances to which his people are admitted, and by which nourishment is given here to those that believe in him, as well as mansions in heaven hereafter. The ministers of the gospel go forth to invite the guests. The call is general, and shuts out none that do not shut out themselves. Our Saviour came, not to call the righteous, but sinners; not the wise in their own eyes, who say they see. We must keep from the company and foolish pleasures of the ungodly, or we never can enjoy the pleasures of a holy life. It is vain to seek the company of wicked men in the hope of doing them good; we are far more likely to be corrupted by them. It is not enough to forsake the foolish, we must join those that walk in wisdom. There is no true wisdom but in the way of religion, no true life but in the end of that way. Here is the happiness of those that embrace it. A man cannot...

CHAPTER IX _Wisdom builds her house, makes her provision for a great feast,_ _calls her guests, and exhorts them to partake of her_ _entertainment_, 14. _Different admonitions relative to the acquisition of wisdom_, 7-12. _The character and conduct of a bad woman_, 13-18. NOTES ON CHAP. IX. The same Wisdom speaks here who spoke in the preceding chapter. _There_ she represented herself as manifest in all the _works of_ _God_ in the natural world; all being constructed according to counsels proceeding from an infinite understanding. _Here_, she represents herself as the great _potentate_, who was to rule all that she had constructed;

A parable full of beauty, and interesting in its parallelism to the parables of our Lord Matthew 22:3; Luke 14:16. SEVEN PILLARS - The number is chosen as indicating completeness and perfection. God revealing Himself in nature, resting in His work, entering into covenant with human beings - these were the ideas conveyed by it....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 9:1 15. _Fifteenth admonitory discourse, _containing in a parabolic form an invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1), and that of her rival Folly (Proverbs 9:13). The chapter sums up in brief the warnings of the preceding part. PROVERBS 9:1 Wisdom was represented as having a house at whose portals persons waited eagerly for admission (Proverbs 8:34); the idea is further carried on. WISDOM HATH BUILDED HER HOUSE. (For the plural form of khoc

WISDOM HATH BUILDED HER HOUSE,.... Or "Wisdoms": of which see Proverbs 1:20; Christ, the Wisdom of God, is meant, in whom and from whom all wisdom is. Various are the opinions concerning this house built by him. Some take it to be the whole circle of sciences, and the seven pillars to be the seven liberal ones, as Aben Ezra; though rather, as others, it may design the schools of the prophets, in which young men were trained up in the knowledge of divine and spiritual things. Some would have the whole universe to be meant, and the seven pillars to be the seven days of creation, as Jarchi; or the seven planets, as others: it is an odd notion of Grotius, that the human body is intended, with its five senses; and, to make up the number seven, adds the voice and memory: rather the human nature of Christ, which is a temple, a tabernacle, a house in which the Godhead dwells, is built by Wisdom,...

CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)_ 2. The contrast with Folly. (Proverbs 9:13) Proverbs 9:1. The first section of Proverbs closeth with a contrast of Wisdom and Folly, both personified. The one, our Lord, the other under the symbol of a foolish woman. Wisdom sends forth her invitation after her house is built and the feast is spread. It reminds us of the parable of the great supper (Luke 14:1). Here too is the gracious invitation, “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled.” Prov

PROVERBS 9. THE INVITATIONS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY CONTRASTED. This section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by with offers of hospitality. The two pictures, each consisting of six stanzas, are now separated by six stanzas of unconnected proverbs (Proverbs 9:7). PROVERBS 9:1. WISDOM'S INVITATION. The parable of the Great Supper in Matthew 22 and Luke 14 may perhaps be modelled on this passage. Wisdom's house, with its seven pillars, her preparations for the feast, and her message of invitation are described. The appointments imply a city life and setting to the scene, but whether Jewish or Greek is not determined by the details. The pillars, viands, and messengers naturally offer themselves to allegorical inte

WISDOM. Plural as in Proverbs 1:20; Proverbs 9:1, and Proverbs 14:1....

_seven pillars_ "Pillars form an important feature in Oriental architecture, partly perhaps as a reminiscence of the tent with its supporting poles, and partly also from the use of flat roofs, in consequence of which the chambers were either narrower, or divided into portions by columns." _Smith's Dict. of Bible_, Art. PILLAR. Here, however, it is better to suppose that the great banquet-hall is open all along the front, so as it were to invite entrance, the roof being supported by a row (-seven" is the usual symbol of completeness) of stately pillars. The magnificent hall in which the lords of the Philistines sat and watched Samson making sport in the court-yard outside, while on its flat roof no fewer than 3000 people were assembled, was constructed on this principle; the two central pillars of the colonnade forming a chief support of the roof (Judges 16:25-30).