“ For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtaing favour of the LORD. ”
Wisdom then is the only true life. The Word, the Light, is also the Life of man John 1:4 . The eternal life is to know God and Christ John 17:3 .
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...
fin deth life: i.e. resurrection life, and life eternal. Compare John 3:36 ; 1 John 5:12 . See note on Leviticus 18:5 . favour . as shown in Romans 6:23 .
DISCOURSE: 771 THE VALUE OF TRUE WISDOM Proverbs 8:35-36 . Whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. But he that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul: all they th...
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. Whoso findeth me - The wisdom that comes from God, teaching to avoid evil and cleave to that which is good; findeth life - gets...
And shall obtain favour— Wisdom is the salvation, the happiness, the life of men. All these attributes apply admirably to Jesus Christ. We observe from this chapter, that if it be at all to be unde...
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. "Findeth me," after long "watching daily at my...
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...
Whoso findeth me findeth life. — Comp. 1 John 5:12 ; John 8:51 ; and above, Proverbs 3:18 , where Wisdom is described as a “tree of life.”
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,...
For whoso findeth me findeth life ,.... Of finding Christ, Proverbs 3:13 . Such that find Christ find "life" or "lives" z, life spiritual and eternal; till they are found of Christ, and find him i...
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. Ver. 35. For whoso findeth me, findeth life. ] Lest any man should hold it too hard a task to wait at wisdom's gates - as pr...
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...
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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
1 John 5:11 ; 1 John 5:12 ; Colossians 3:3 ; Ephesians 1:6 ; John 14:6 ; John 3:16 ; John 3:36 ; Philippians 3:8 ; Proverbs 1:33 ; Proverbs 12:2 ; Proverbs 3:13-18