“ I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. ”
I love them that love me; and those that seek me (g) early shall find me. (g) That is, study the word of God diligently, and with a desire to profit.
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...
that love me. Illustrations: Joseph ( Genesis 37:2 :; Genesis 37:13 ; Genesis 37:16-17 . Pro 39:3, Pro 39:9. Pro 41:38); Samuel ( 1 Samuel 2:26 ; 1 Samuel 7:3-17 . compare Jeremiah 15:1 ); Dav...
DISCOURSE: 769 ADDRESS PREPARATORY TO CONFIRMATION Proverbs 8:17 . I love them that love me; and those that seek me early, shall find me . THESE are the words of our blessed Lord [Note: ver. 22...
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. I love them that love me - Wisdom shows itself; teaches man the knowledge of himself; shows him also the will of God concerning h...
I love them that love me— In order to seek for wisdom with the earnestness that she merits, we must know her, and love her: we must by our continual prayers seek for this excellent good, and intrea...
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. I love them that love me: and those that seek me early shall find me. So the Qeri' or Hebrew margin reads ( 'ohabay (...
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...
I love them that love me. — Comp. John 14:21 : he that loveth me.... I will love him.
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...
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my r...
I love them that love me ,.... Those that love Christ are such who are born again, and have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of him; that believe in him, have seen his loveliness, have had his...
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Ver. 17. I love them that love me. ] The philosopher could say, that if moral virtue could be seen with mortal eyes, she would...
I love them that love me I do not despise their love, though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me, but I kindly accept it, and will recompense it with my love and favour; and those tha...
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...
I love them that love me; I do not despise their love though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me but I kindly accept it, and will recompense it with my love and favour. That seek me e...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:17 . Early , i.e. , “earnestly” (see on ch. Proverbs 1:28 ). Proverbs 8:18 . Durable . Zöckler thinks this rather signifies “growing.” Proverbs 8:21 . Inherit...
Proverbs 8:17 I. "I love them that love Me." It might be inferred from such words as these, that man must love God as a preliminary to or condition of God's loving man. But the truth is that our l...
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...
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 John 4:19 ; 1 Samuel 2:30 ; Ecclesiastes 12:1 ; Isaiah 45:19 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; James 1:5 ; John 14:21 ; John 14:23 ; John 16:27 ; Mark 10:14 ; Matthew 6:33 ; Matthew 7:7 ; Matthew 7:8 ;...
I love — I do not despise their love, but kindly accept it and recompence it with my love and favour. Early — With sincere affection and diligence, which he mentions as the evidence of their love.