A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Ver. 5. A wise man will hear.] Hearing and seeing are by Aristotle called "the learned senses," because by these doors learning, yea, life, entereth into the soul. Isa 55:3 David Chytraeus, when he lay dying, lifted up himself to hear the discourses of his friends that sat by him, and said that he should die with better cheer if he might die learning something. a
And will increase learning.] "Take heed what you hear: unto you that hear shall more be given." Mar 4:24 See Trapp on " Mar 4:24 " Only ponder and apply what you hear. For they that do otherwise are like the wolf, who never attain to any more divine learning than to spell Pater; father, but when they should come to put together, and to apply it to their souls, they say agnus, lamb, - their minds running a-madding after the profits and pleasures of the world, and they thinking those little less than mad that "run to and fro to increase knowledge." Dan 12:4
a " Si moribundus etiam aliquid didicisset. " - Melch. Adam.