Proverbs 8:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. ”

• Proverbs 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The full enumeration of localities points to the publicity and openness of Wisdom’s teaching (see Proverbs 1:20 note), as contrasted with the stealth and secrecy and darkness which shroud the har...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  She crieth at (b) the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors. (b) Where the people resorted most and which was the place of justice.

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  doors . entrances.

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. She crieth at the gates - This might be well applied to the preaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles, and their fai...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. She crieth at the gates (Hebrew, at the hand of the gates), at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  She crieth at the gates ,.... Of the temple, or of the city, where the courts of judicature were, and persons met on civil accounts; and where people were continually passing and repassing; at the...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Ver. 3. At the entry of the city. ] Heb., At the mouth; for as words go out of the mouth, so do men out of the cit...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  She standeth in the top of high places Where she may be best seen and heard; not in corners, and in the dark, as the harlot did; by the way in the places of the paths Where many paths meet, where...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Invitation of Wisdom.       1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?   2 She standeth in the top of...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  At the gates; the places of judgment, and of the confluence of people. At the entry of the city, to invite passengers at their first coming, and to conduct them to her house. At the coming in at t...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Proverbs 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 5:20 ; John 18:20 ; Luke 14:21-23 ; Matthew 22:9

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• Proverbs 8:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Gates — The places of judgment, and of the confluence of people. The entry — To invite passengers at their first coming and to conduct them to her house. The doors — Of her house.

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