2 Corinthians 12:1; 2 Corinthians 12:11; John 5:44; Philippians 2:3; Proverbs 27:2; Proverbs 25:16
So for men ... - A difficult sentence, the text of which is probably defective. The words are not in the original. Many commentators render: so t...
First Division. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic c...
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. It is not good to eat much honey - Coverdale translates th...
It is not good to eat much honey— See on Proverbs 25:16 and Isaiah 7:15 . Delicious as honey is to an eastern palate, it has been thought someti...
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. (It is) not good to eat much honey ( Proverbs 25:16 );...
Courts. Quarrels 1-7. relate to kings and courts.
LXX. reads, 'It is not good,' etc.: 'Therefore be sparing in words of commendation.' Too much flattery is like too much honey.
So for men to search their own glory is not glory. — The sense of this passage is very doubtful. It may mean, “But to search into difficult matters...
CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the e...
Self-Control and Kindliness Proverbs 25:15-28 In this paragraph we have good advice as to our dealings with the varied characters with whom we...
We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gather...
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to searc...
[It is] not good to eat much honey ,.... That is too much otherwise it is good to eat, Proverbs 24:13 ; but too much is hurtful, it surfeits the st...
Proverbs 25:27 [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory. Ver. 27. It is not good to eat too muc...
It is not good to eat much honey Namely, for the health of the body; so for men to search their own glory Industriously to seek for honour and ap...
In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For de...
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. I. Two things we must be graciously de...
Not good, to wit, for the health of the body. For men; which words are easily understood, both out of the foregoing clause, where the honey is su...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 25:27 . The last phrase in this verse is variously rendered. The words is not are not in the Hebrew. Stuart reads, “...
Proverbs 25:1 . These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out. Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand an...
It is not good to eat much honey. Natural desires running too far Man is a creature of manifold desires. These desires may be divided into two...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-29:27 Part VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS , gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wi...
True Wisdom the Highest Good of Kings and Subjects.
It is not good to eat much honey, it is so overrich in nourishment that its excessive use will produce a feeling of repugnance; so for men to search...
Not good — For health. To search — Industriously to seek for applause. Is not — Is not only sinful, but shameful also.
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.