“ By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. ”
Not only the common life of common men, but the exercise of the highest sovereignty, must have this Wisdom as its ground. Compare with this passage Proverbs 8:15-21 the teaching of 1 Kings 3:5-1...
By me (f) kings reign, and princes decree justice. (f) By which he declares that honours, dignities or riches do not come from man's wisdom or industry, but by the providence of God.
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...
By me kings reign. See Psalms 75:6 ; Psalms 75:7 ; Daniel 2:21 ; Daniel 2:47 ; Romans 13:1-7 .
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me kings reign - Every wise and prudent king is such through the influence of Divine wisdom. And just laws and their righteous administration come fr...
By me kings reign— All authority and power come from God; and all those who are established over others have received from the author of this wisdom all their superiority. Whether God gives a princ...
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice - ( Psalms 18:35 ; Daniel 2:21 ; Daniel 4:26-37 ; Romans 13:1 .) If even "kings" owe their auth...
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...
Princes. — Literally, men of weight, or, importance.
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...
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Reader! do pause over these verses, and in the midst of admiring and adoring Christ i...
By me kings reign ,.... Christ is the Prince of the kings of the earth, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; they are made kings by him, and are under him; he sets them up, and deposes them at plea...
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. Ver. 15. By me kings reign. ] How, then, can the schoolmen defend Thomas Aquinas in that paradox, Dominium et praelatio introducta sunt ex iure hu...
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom Hebrew, ותושׁיה, and essence , that is, all solid, substantial, and useful wisdom is natural and essential to me. I am understanding By my nature and essence. O...
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 Advantages of Wisdom. 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 13 The fear of...
By me kings reign: either, 1. They get their kingdom by mine appointment and providence. Or rather, 2. They rule their kingdoms wisely, and justly, and happily, by my counsel and assistance; fo...
3). Wisdom Hates Evil Attitudes And Behaviour But Enables Just Government From Those Who Love Her ( Proverbs 8:13-17 ). This subsection which majors on wisdom's role in ensuring just government wh...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 8:14-16 THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER I. Moral wisdom is the strength of kings . “I have strength; by me kings rule.” There is a kind of strength in all...
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...
By Me kings reign. Christian loyalty I. The special cause that we have for increased thankfulness to God. 1. We ought to be thankful for any event which tends to secure the blessings of peac...
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...
Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.
1 Chronicles 28:5 ; 1 Kings 10:9 ; 1 Kings 3:28 ; 1 Kings 3:9 ; 1 Kings 5:7 ; 1 Samuel 16:1 ; 1 Samuel 9:17 ; Daniel 2:21 ; Daniel 4:25 ; Daniel 4:32 ; Daniel 5:18-31 ; Daniel 7:13 ; Dan...
By me — They rule their kingdoms wisely and justly, by my counsel and assistance. Their injustice is from themselves, but all the good they do, they owe to my conduct.