My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Proverbs 2:1-22.-There are two leading propositions:
I. Pro 2:1-9 , with three antecedent conditions and two consequents: Proverbs 2:1, "If; Proverbs 2:3, "If;" Proverbs 2:4, "If;" I. Pro 2:1-9 , with three antecedent conditions and two consequents: Proverbs 2:1, "If; Proverbs 2:3, "If;" Proverbs 2:4, "If;" and Proverbs 2:5, "Then;" Proverbs 2:9. "Then."
II. Pro 2:10-22 with one antecedent and one consequent: Proverbs 2:10, "When;" Proverbs 2:11 (then as the consequence), "Discretion shall preserve thee," etc.; with a threefold subordinate and dependent effect, "To deliver thee," Proverbs 2:12; "To deliver thee," Proverbs 2:16; "That thou mayest walk in the way of good men," Proverbs 2:20.
Wisdom invites the youth as a son to hide in his heart her commandments, the result of which will be, he will understand the fear and the knowledge of the Lord, and righteousness and every good path (Proverbs 2:1-9). She invites him to admit wisdom into his heart, because when it is pleasant unto the soul, discretion shall preserve him so as to deliver him from the way of the evil man, and from the strange woman, whose paths lead unto the dead, and so as to make him walk in the way of good men, who alone shall be saved when the wicked shall be cut off (Proverbs 2:10-22).
My son, if thou wilt receive my words - as he that received the seed of the Word into the good ground, hearing and understanding it, and bearing fruit (Matthew 13:23).
And hide my commandments with thee - treasure them up in thy heart, as when the man found the treasure in the field he hid it safely (Matthew 13:44); and as Mary "kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart" (Luke 2:19; Luke 2:51). The safeguard against sin (Psalms 119:11).