“ My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: ”
The formula of a new counsel, introducing another warning against the besetting sin of youth Proverbs 2:16 .
Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 . The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the desc...
My son. See note on Proverbs 1:8 . understanding =. discernment.
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: Attend unto my wisdom - Take the following lessons from my own experience.
My son attend, &c.— There being nothing to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to their fleshly desires, and nothing so pernicious to them as to converse with harlots, the wise man...
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: Proverbs 5:1-23 .-Prefatory exhortation to the study of wisdom. Warning again the love of strange women, whose words are...
Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, o...
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his...
Quicksands! Keep Off! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great evil, which has ma...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural...
CONTENTS We have in this Chapter, and in a similar strain, to the former chapter, an exhortation to the study of Wisdom: and both the blessed effects of that study and the sad consequences of the ne...
My son, attend unto my wisdom ,.... Not the wisdom of the world or of the flesh, worldly wisdom and carnal policy; but spiritual and evangelical wisdom; such as one that is greater than Solomon has...
My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding: Ver. 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom. ] Aristotle a could say that young men are but cross and crooked hearers of moral...
My son, attend unto my wisdom “There being nothing,” says Bishop Patrick, “to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to satisfy their fleshly desires, and nothing proving so pernicious to...
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 5 An exhortation to the study of wisdom, Proverbs 5:1,2 . To shun the company of strange women, Proverbs 5:3-5 . The mischief of whoredom and riots, Proverbs 5:14 . In a m...
The Need To Listen To Solomon's Wisdom And Not To Be Enticed By The Words Of The Strange Woman Which Lead To Death And Slavery ( Proverbs 5:1-14 ). The constant reference to the need to avoid the...
ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound....
Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woma...
My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sins The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so vi...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced...
My son, attend unto my wisdom, giving heed to its precepts, and bow thine ear, in the attitude of the most careful listening, to my understanding, both the possession of knowledge and the proper...
James 1:19 ; Mark 4:23 ; Matthew 3:9 ; Proverbs 2:1 ; Proverbs 22:17 ; Proverbs 4:1 ; Proverbs 4:20 ; Revelation 2:11 ; Revelation 2:17 ; Revelation 2:29 ; Revelation 2:7 ; Revelation 3:1...