And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
Ver. 32. And he spake three thousand proverbs.] Which others, likely, took from his mouth, and made books of them; such as contained cunctam saeculi doctrinam, as Jerome saith of Tertullian's works, who was, saith Lactantins, a general scholar. Of these proverbs of Solomon, not the one half are come to hand, as being no part of holy writ.
And his songs were a thousand and five.] Whereof is extant only that Song of Songs, that singular song. see Son 1:1 This and the rest of his works extant in the Church, show his divine learning: as his other lectures 1Ki 4:33 his human.