“ Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. ”
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...
Forsake, &c. Illustrations: Moses ( Hebrews 11:24-27 ); Caleb and Joshua ( Numbers 13:30-33 ; Numbers 14:6-9 ; Numbers 14:38 ); Rahab ( Joshua 2:9-13 ; Joshua 6:25 . Hebrews 11:31 ; Hebrews...
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...
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Forsake the foolish - For the companion of fools must be a fool. And live - Answer the end for which thou wert born.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Forsake the company and the ways of the foolish (the same...
The Rivals Folly and Wisdom invite guests to their respective houses. The consequences of accepting either of the two invitations are described. We are reminded of the Greek parable, 'The choice o...
Forsake the foolish. — Rather, the simple ; be no longer counted among the weak, who can be “carried about with every wind of doctrine” ( Ephesians 4:14 ), but “stand fast in the faith, quit you l...
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...
Forsake the foolish ,.... Foolish men and their company; not men of weak abilities in things natural and civil, or who are reckoned foolish by the world; for so the saints are, whose company is not...
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Ver. 6. Forsake the foolish. ] No coming to this feast in the tattered rags of the old Adam; you must relinquish your former evil...
Whoso is simple Ignorant, weak, and liable to be deceived, but willing to learn; let him turn in hither For there is no man so ignorant but he is welcome to come and receive instruction. By this...
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her...
The foolish, i.e. the wicked, and their courses and society: you must either forsake them or me, for we are irreconcilable enemies. In the way of understanding; which leads to it, and is prescrib...
The Appeal Of Woman Wisdom To The Naive ( Proverbs 9:1-6 ). After making full and generous preparations Wisdom calls on the naive to respond to and partake of her feast. ‘The naive' might be bette...
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 9:1-6 The marriage supper for the king's son. I. The house. The frame is set up from everlasting, well-ordered in all things, and sure. The tried Foundation is the Lord our Righteousness...
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 )...
The Banquet of Wisdom
2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Acts 2:40 ; Luke 13:24 ; Matthew 7:13 ; Matthew 7:14 ; Proverbs 10:17 ; Proverbs 13:20 ; Proverbs 4:11 ; Proverbs 4:14 ; Proverbs 4:15 ; Psalms 119:115 ; Psalms 26:4-...