These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Ver. 1. These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men.] Solomon "hath his thousand out of this his vineyard of three thousand proverbs," 1Ki 4:32 and these men of Hezekiah that kept, and yet communicated, the fruit thereof, "their two hundred." Son 8:12 It is good for men to be doing what they are able for the glory of God and good of others, a if it be but to copy out another man's work, and prepare it for the press. Them that any way honour God he will honour; that is a bargain of his own making, and we may trust to it.
a Prima sequentem honestum est in secundis tertiisque consistere. - Cic, de Orat.