“ Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. ”
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...
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Near instruction - Hebrew, disciplinary instruction: the first step to wisdom.
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...
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...
Finding Wisdom, Finding Life Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by chance . It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression...
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...
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,...
Hear instruction ,.... The instruction of wisdom, the Gospel of Christ; which instructs men in things relating to God the Father; as that he is the God and Father of his people, the God of all grace...
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Ver. 33. Hear instruction, and be wise. ] This way wisdom enters into the soul. Hear, therefore, for else there is no hope; hear, howsoever. Augus...
Now therefore hearken , &c. Seeing I have a true love to you, and seeing I am so thoroughly acquainted with my Father's mind, and so excellently qualified to be your Counsellor and Ruler; hear...
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...
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 H...
Or, do not make it void or unprofitable to you by your own sloth or wilfulness.
6). Wisdom Brings Blessing On Those Who Hear Her For Through Her They Find Life And Come Into The Favour Of God ( Proverbs 8:32-36 ). Because her delight was with the sons of men Wisdom calls on m...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:36 . Sinneth against , “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch, and Miller. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:32-36 EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO...
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...
The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way. Wisdom the first creation of God Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--a...
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...
The Origins and the Blessings of the Personal Wisdom
Acts 7:35-37 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Isaiah 55:1-3 ; Proverbs 1:2 ; Proverbs 1:21 ; Proverbs 1:3 ; Proverbs 1:8 ; Proverbs 4:1 ; Proverbs 5:1 ; Psalms 81:11 ; Psalms 81:12 ; Romans 10:16 ; Rom...