“ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? ”
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 bet...
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 wor...
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 prof...
wisdom. Hebrew. chokmah = wisdom personified. Compare Proverbs 8:12 .
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Doth not wisdom cry? - Here wisdom is again personified; but the prosopopoeia is carried on to a greater length than before, and with much...
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 seduc...
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Proverbs 8:1-36 .-Wisdom herself openly cries in all places, inviting men to her ( Proverbs 8:1-3 ). Her invitation: Unto you men I...
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...
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 c...
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 pictu...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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 s...
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 divi...
To the writer Proverbs 8:1-36 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 won...
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 2 She standeth in the top of...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 8 Wisdom's fame, call, and exhortation, Proverbs 8:1-9 . Her excellency, nature, and hatred of evil, Proverbs 8:10-13 . Her power, Proverbs 8:14-16 ; and love to the godly...
1). Wisdom Calls On Men To Hear Her ( Proverbs 8:1-4 ). 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...
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 Wis...
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 W...
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 eviden...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-20 ; and...
Doth not Wisdom cry, calling aloud to men to hear, and understanding put forth her voice, in an effort to reach all men?
Acts 1:8 ; Acts 22:21 ; Isaiah 49:1-6 ; Isaiah 55:1-3 ; John 7:37 ; Luke 24:47 ; Mark 13:10 ; Mark 16:15 ; Mark 16:16 ; Matthew 28:19 ; Matthew 28:20 ; Matthew 3:3 ; Matthew 4:17 ; Prov...
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 th...