“ Open rebuke is better than secret love. ”
Secret love - Better, love that is hidden; i. e., love which never shows itself in this one way of rebuking faults. Rebuke, whether from friend or foe, is better than such love.
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. Proverbs 27:3 . cf. Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverb...
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Open rebuke is better than secret love - Plutarch gives an account of a man who, aiming a blow at his enemy's life, cut open an imposthume, which by a saluta...
Open rebuke is better than secret love— He who takes an ingenuous liberty to tell others of their faults, and rebuke them freely when need requires to their face, is a more valuable friend, though...
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Open rebuke is better than secret love - is better than the love which is hidden in the heart, and does not perform the outward offices of love, in aidi...
Sundry Observations. Agriculture 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant ( Song of Solomon 8:6 ). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be...
Secret love — i.e., that never discloses itself in acts of kindness, not even in “open rebuke” when such is needed.
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of...
“Hearty Counsel” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is friends , Proverbs 27:6 ; Proverbs 27:9-10 ; Proverbs 27:14 ; Proverbs 27:17 ; Proverbs 19:1-29 . Friends, according to...
Verse Proverbs 27:5 . This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14 . There is nothing more calculate...
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and ang...
Open rebuke [is] better than secret love. This is to be understood, not of rebuke publicly given; though Aben Ezra thinks public reproof is meant, which, arising from love, is better than that whic...
Open rebuke [is] better than secret love. Ver. 5. Open rebuke is better than secret love. ] For, after the nature of pills, rebuke, though it be not toothsome, yet it is wholesome, and a sure sign...
Open rebuke is better than secret love “He that takes an ingenuous liberty to tell others of their faults, and rebukes them freely, when need requires, to their face, is a better friend, a more val...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third...
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Note, 1. It is good for us to be reproved, and told...
Open rebuke, Heb. which is manifested or discovered , either, 1. Publicly and before others, when it is needful; in which case, though it put a man to some shame, yet it doth him good. Or, 2....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 27:5 . Secret love . Zöckler and Hitzig understand this love to be that “ which from false consideration dissembles, and does not tell his friend of his faults when it sh...
Proverbs 27:1 . Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or wha...
Proverbs 27:2 . Let another man praise thee. A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Je...
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Charitable reproof Self-love is so natural to us, that as it makes us apt to flatter ourselves on all occasions, so it inclines us to accept too easily o...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 27:1-20 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow. He boasts himself ( Proverbs 25:14 )...
Exaltation of Self Leads to Folly
1 Timothy 5:20 ; Galatians 2:14 ; Leviticus 19:17 ; Matthew 18:15 ; Proverbs 28:23
Making the Most of Life Proverbs 27:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Te...
Open — When it is needful, in which case, though it put a man to some shame yet it doth him good. Better — More desirable and beneficial. Secret love — Which does not shew itself by friendly action...