Proverbs 8:1

Doth not Wisdom cry, calling aloud to men to hear, and understanding put forth her voice, in an effort to reach all men?

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A companion picture to that in Proverbs 7 , and serving in some measure to generalize and idealize it. Wisdom also calls Proverbs 8:5 to the “si...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Doth not (a) wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? (a) Solomon declares that man is the cause of his own perdition and that he cannot p...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 addre...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wisdom. Hebrew. chokmah = wisdom personified. Compare Proverbs 8:12 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Doth not wisdom cry? - Here wisdom is again personified; but the prosopopoeia is carried...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Doth not wisdom cry, &c.— We may consider this chapter as connected with the preceding, and making one continued discourse. The wise man has re...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Proverbs 8:1-36 .-Wisdom herself openly cries in all places, inviting men to her...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

VIII. ( n ) . Fourteenth Discourse : — The Praise of Wisdom ( Proverbs 8 ) (1) Doth not wisdom cry? — See above on Proverbs 1:20 . In contra...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 draw...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Better than Gold” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch,...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 m...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS. We have in this Chapter a most sublime account of some ancient events in eternity, and which, under the character of wisdom, the great spe...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Doth not wisdom cry ?.... Christ, who is the Wisdom of God; Proverbs 1:20 ; and which clearly appears from his subsistence with the Father, his et...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Ver. 1. Doth not wisdom cry? ] And shall a harlot be sooner heard than she? Shall men...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Doth not wisdom cry It is a great question what this wisdom is, of which Solomon discourses so largely and profoundly in this chapter. Some underst...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding pu...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PROVERBS CHAPTER 8 Wisdom's fame, call, and exhortation, Proverbs 8:1-9 . Her excellency, nature, and hatred of evil, Proverbs 8:10-13 . Her...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1). Wisdom Calls On Men To Hear Her ( Proverbs 8:1-4 ). Wisdom had been defined for us earlier in the Prologue. She is based on ‘the fear of YHWH'...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Places of the paths “in the midst of the highways.” “These ways are roads, solitary paths, not streets in the city, and the delin...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 eve...
The Biblical Illustrator

Doth not Wisdom cry The personification of Wisdom Whatever may have been the satisfaction experienced by devout minds in reading this chapter,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wisdom — It is a great question what this wisdom is. Some understand it of the Divine wisdom; others of the second person in the Godhead: and it ca...

¹ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 8:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 8:1