“ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;a ”
Wisdom - Not the same word as in Proverbs 1:2 ; better, perhaps, thoughtfulness. Justice - Rather, righteousness. The word in the Hebrew includes the ideas of truth and beneficence as well a...
To receive the (c) instruction of wisdom, (d) justice, and judgment, and equity; (c) To learn to submit ourselves to the correction of those who are wise. (d) By living justly and rendering to ever...
Proverbs 1-9. First Section. The Praise of Wisdom. Proverbs 1:1 . Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for proverb, mâ shâ l, has a wide significance...
wisdom. Hebrew. sakal. See note on Proverbs 1:2 (No. 5), above.
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To receive the instruction - השכל haskel, the deliberately weighing of the points contained in the teaching, so as to find out...
To receive the instruction— Or, to learn the discipline. Schultens paraphrases the clause thus: "To conceive and cherish in the inmost heart, as a heavenly seed, the discipline of perfection, by...
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity - "wisdom" х haskeel ( H7919 )]; a differe...
The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6 . Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledg...
To receive the instruction of wisdom. — To take in, or appropriate, the “discipline” which results in “prudence” ( haskçl ) or practical wisdom; so David “behaved himself wisely” ( 1 Samuel 18:5 )....
CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is und...
“The Beginning of Knowledge” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. Wisdom as used in this book...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowl...
To receive the instruction of wisdom ,.... Or "prudence" h; of wise and prudent men; and especially of Christ himself, who bears those names, whose instructions this book is full of; and the design...
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; Ver. 3. To receive the instruction. ] Tertullian calls the Bible (and the Proverbs by a specialty) nostra digesta, from t...
To know wisdom Written to help men to know, thoroughly and practically, both human wisdom, to conduct their affairs properly in this life, and especially divine wisdom, showing them their duty to G...
The Design of the Proverbs. 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruct...
To receive the instruction; willingly to receive the counsels of others, which is a good step to wisdom, and a part of it. Of wisdom; such as is wise, and tends to make men wise and prudent. This...
Introduction To The Prologue ( Proverbs 1:1-7 ). The book commences with an introduction which explains its purpose in some depth. Its aim is to pass on ‘the sayings of Solomon, the son of David,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs . See Introduction. Proverbs 1:2 . Instruction , properly “chastisement,” signifying moral training, admonition, then good habits, the practical side o...
Proverbs 1:1-4 It might seem at first as if no precepts of this kind, drawn from the experience of a social state most unlike our own, could be of much service to us. But much that is true of man...
Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs, apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use,...
The proverbs of Solomon. The Book of Proverbs 1. The book does not consist of proverbs entirely. Much of it is the language of pious exhortation and spiritual precept. 2. The book contains m...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 1:1-20 Part I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION . The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short...
The Title and the Introduction
1 Kings 3:28 ; Job 22:22 ; Proverbs 2:1-9 ; Proverbs 8:10 ; Proverbs 8:11
The Proverbs of Solomon Proverbs 1:1-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall...
To receive — Willing to receive the counsels of others. Such as makes men wise and prudent, and to teach just judgments or equity.