It is not, to you, O Jews! They are divine and heavenly things, so excellent that, in comparison with them, all other learning is but children’s play. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Wisdom is the surest way to wealth and reputation for nations and persons. They are proclaimed aloud (v. 1): Does not Wisdom cry? In order to this, here is,I. The foolish man knows not how to go to the city (Eccl. Christ is a faithful witness, is the truth itself; wickedness (that is, lying) is an abomination to his lips. His agency in making the world. Christ found out the knowledge of that great invention, and a costly one it was to him, man’s salvation, by his satisfaction, an admirable expedient. who are taught more than the beasts of the earth and made wiser than the fowls of heaven. We may apply it to Christ himself; he dwells with prudence, for his whole undertaking is the wisdom of God in a mystery, and in it God abounds towards us in all wisdom and prudence. He was no less active when, on the second day, he stretched out the firmament, the vast expanse, and set that as a compass upon the face of the depth (v. 27), surrounded it on all sides with that canopy, that curtain. Now, I. Divine revelation is the word and wisdom of God, and that pure religion and undefiled which is built upon it; and of that Solomon here speaks, recommending it to us as faithful, and well worthy of all acceptation (v. 1-2). Wisdom will bring success in this life and the world to come, for it is the true fear of God (Pr 8:12-14; Eccl 12:13-14). Spiritual and eternal things are the only real and substantial things. But there is much more, for spiritual wisdom that pleases God also leads to eternal riches in glory with the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ and the acceptance and honor of God as His dear children and the brethren of Jesus Christ. The word of God is two-fold, and, in both senses, is wisdom; for a word without wisdom is of little value, and wisdom without a word is of little use. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. Wisdom explains herself (v. 23): I was set up from everlasting. Joy in God is substantial joy, solid and well-grounded. Popularity relative to other verses in Proverbs chapter 8 using average monthly Google searches. We must bid it welcome, receive the impressions of it, and submit to the command of it; and this rather than choice gold, that is, 1. V. The gracious concern he had for mankind, v. 31. At first pass, this proverb seems simple. Verses 22-31 That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scripture by itself. And men’s own hearts sometimes speak aloud to them; there are clamours of conscience, as well as whispers. A large part of America, now a small minority, feared Him and sought Bible wisdom. He is the wonderful counsellor and gives that grace which alone is sound wisdom. 3. 18:20 . All divine revelation is, We have here the application of Wisdom’s discourse; the design and tendency of it is to bring us all into an entire subjection to the laws of religion, to make us wise and good, not to fill our heads with speculations, or our tongues with disputes, but to rectify what is amiss in our hearts and lives. The preceding verse encourages you to seek wisdom early – in life, in each day, in each situation – and you will be blessed. The work in nothing varied from the plan of it formed in the eternal mind. Be it spoken to the honour of religion that, however it is unjustly accused, it is so far from making men conceited and sour that there is nothing more directly contrary to it than pride and passion, nor which it teaches us more to detest.III. They are proclaimed in the places of concourse, where multitudes are gathered together, the more the better. Of the satisfaction they had in each other, with reference to the great work of man’s redemption. Before the earth was, and that was made in the beginning, before man was made; therefore the second Adam had a being before the first, for the first Adam was made of the earth, the second had a being before the earth, and therefore is not of the earth, Jn. He finds life, for he shall obtain favour of the Lord, and in his favour is life. Religion sometimes helps to make people rich and great in this world, gains them a reputation, and so increases their estates; and the riches which Wisdom gives to her favourites have these two advantages:—[1.] 2. In order to this, here is,I. While we have God’s works before our eyes, and his word in our hand, we may be every day hearing Wisdom, and learning instruction from her. They shall be happy in the grace … 20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: The King James Bible (1611) and Strong's Concordance (1890) with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). They have refused her advice. This is that fruit of wisdom which is better than gold, than fine gold, it leads us in the way of righteousness, shows us that way and goes before us in it, the way that God would have us walk in and which will certainly bring us to our desired end. 6:13 . 9:18 . His eternity; he was begotten of the Father, for the Lord possessed him, as his own Son, his beloved Son, laid him in his bosom; he was brought forth as the only-begotten of the Father, and this before all worlds, which is most largely insisted upon here. 2. But before the hills was the eternal Word brought forth.
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