“ Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: ”
A parable full of beauty, and interesting in its parallelism to the parables of our Lord Matthew 22:3-4 ; Luke 14:16 . Seven pillars - The number is chosen as indicating completeness and perf...
Wisdom hath built her (a) house, she hath hewn out her (b) seven pillars: (a) Christ has prepared him a Church. (b) That is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patri...
Proverbs 9. The Invitations of Wisdom and Folly Contrasted. This section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by w...
Wisdom. Plural as in Proverbs 1:20 ; Proverbs 9:1 , and Proverbs 14:1 .
DISCOURSE: 772 WISDOM’S FEAST Proverbs 9:1-6 . Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished...
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: Wisdom hath builded her house - The eternal counsel of God has framed the universe. She hath hewn out her seven pillars - Every th...
Wisdom hath builded her house— This is a most splendid allegory, says Schultens, in which Wisdom is conceived as a queen, sitting in her royal palace, and inviting mortals to a banquet, plentifully...
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: Proverbs 9:1-18 .-Wisdom's preparations of her house and her banquet for the quests whom she invites by her maidens ( Prove...
The word Wisdom is in the plural, to indicate her variety and perfection. She has a house, and therefore is always ready to entertain. The seven pillars —a complete number—are in the courtyard, su...
IX. (o). Fifteenth Discourse: the Invitations of Wisdom and Folly ( Proverbs 9 ). (1) Wisdom hath builded her house — i.e. , in preparation for the feast to which she is about to invite her...
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1-18 , Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Proverbs 4:1-27 AFTER the lengthened contrast between the vi...
Two Contrasted Invitations Proverbs 9:1-18 There is an age-long competition between Wisdom and Folly, Virtue and Vice. The palace of Wisdom is very attractive-well built and well furnished. It...
The last address is a contrast between wisdom and folly. Each is personified as a woman calling to youth. Wisdom has builded her house, and spread her feast in the high places of the city. She calls...
CONTENTS. In this chapter we have set before us the very different proposals of wisdom and folly. And we are shewn no less, how certainly the former leads to happiness, and the latter to misery. P...
Wisdom hath builded her house ,.... Or "Wisdoms": of which see Proverbs 1:20 ; Christ, the Wisdom of God, is meant, in whom and from whom all wisdom is. Various are the opinions concerning this hou...
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: Ver. 1. Wisdom. ] Heb., Wisdoms, in the plural; and this, either honoris causa, for honour's sake, or else by an ellipsis, as...
Wisdom , &c. Wisdom here, under a most splendid allegory, is represented “as a queen, sitting in her royal palace, and inviting mortals to a banquet, plentifully furnished with the richest daint...
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 9 Wisdom's call to her people unto blessed communion and fellowship with herself, set out under a similitude of making a feast, Proverbs 9:1 . Her preparation, Proverbs 9:2 ,...
Preparation Of The Great Feast ( Proverbs 9:1-3 a). ‘Wisdom has built her house, She has shaped (hewn out) her seven pillars, She has killed her beasts, She has mingled her wine, She has also...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 9:1 . Wisdom , in the plural, as in chap. Proverbs 1:20 , to express excellence and dignity. Proverbs 9:2 . She hath mingled her wine . Some commentators understand...
Proverbs 9:1 If the Wisdom spoken of by Solomon be none other than Christ, the house of Wisdom must be the spiritual house which Christ builds His Church. This house is described as being strong a...
Proverbs 9:1 . Wisdom hath builded her house. This chapter opens with a sublime allegory. We see the princess, the mother of angels and men, enthroned in her temple, “the church which is the pilla...
Wisdom hath builded her house. Wisdom’s invitation The Bible is fully of mystery, not merely in its doctrines, but also in the manner and in the language by which the truths of revelation are b...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 9:1-20 15. Fifteenth admonitory discourse, containing in a parabolic form an invitation of Wisdom ( Proverbs 9:1-20 ), and that of her rival Folly ( Proverbs 9:13-20 )...
Wisdom, the divine and true wisdom, as it is exercised and exhibited here on earth among men, hath builded her house, to dwell in the midst of men. She hath hewn out her seven pillars, the refere...
1 Corinthians 3:9-15 ; 1 Kings 7:2 ; 1 Kings 7:21 ; 1 Kings 7:3 ; 1 Kings 7:6 ; 1 Peter 2:5 ; 1 Peter 2:6 ; 1 Timothy 3:15 ; Ephesians 2:20-22 ; Galatians 2:9 ; Hebrews 3:3-6 ; Matthew 16...
Her house — For the reception of her guests. Seven — Many pillars; whereby is intimated the beauty and stability of the church. Pillars — Prophets, and apostles, and ministers.