For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
If we pass over Solomon king of Israel, and contemplate Christ as mediator in what is here said, it will help the mind to very pleasing improvement. The love that God the Father had to the person of Christ as Mediator, is set forth in many parts of scripture; and indeed of itself it forms a blessed subject. Isaiah 42:1; John 10:17. I cannot think that Solomon had any reference to Bathsheba his mother in those words; neither, if read with an eye to Christ, did Jesus mean the Virgin Mary, the natural mother of Christ. But the church, whom Paul the apostle declares to be the mother of us all, is intended here, and consequently of Christ also after the flesh. ln proof read those scriptures. Galatians 4:26; Matthew 12:49-50.