Category: Religion/Spirituality
VERSES CHAPTER I. Critical Notes 1-4 The Author, His Method and His Object 5, 6 The Characteristics of a Wise Man 7-9 The Root of True Knowledge and the Means of Its Attainment 10-19 Enticement to Sin and Exhortation Against Yielding to It 20-33 The Cry of Wisdom
sense, we shall find habited in the same way. . . . And while our common version would jump needlessly into another subject, the one I give fits most perfectly. God moves man as...
86. CHAPTER XV.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Grievous,+ "bitter," "trying," +stir up;+ lit., "make to ascend," like a flame fanned by bellows (Fausset). +2. Useth knowledge aright,+ rather, "makes know...
70. xii. 27), that righteous character which fits a man for the "housenot made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Cor. v. 1), which can be obtained by union with Him who is immutable--"The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever" (Heb. xiii. 8)....
84. iv. 1), while the foolish man is more and more the dupe of his ownSocrates, meeting a gentleman of rank in the street, saluted him, but the gentleman took no notice of it. His friends, observing what passed, told the philosopher that they were...
76. iii. 6), thus seeming to indicate that pride was at the bottom of allthe contention that is at present going on in the universe between light and darkness, between good and evil. From the pride of this fallen star has come contention in heaven, a...
108. CHAPTER XXII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. A good name.+ Literally _"a name."_ +Loving favour,+ or _"grace," "goodwill."_ +3. Are punished,+ rather _"must suffer injury."_ +4. By humility,+ rather _"...
64. xvi. 3), that have not goodness in them, no, not common honesty; theySurely he that weighs in a false balance is himself weighed by God in a balance of justice, and for the gain he gets he getteth to himself from the Lord His just abomination; no...
106. CHAPTER XXI.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Rivers of water.+ Rather _streams,_ the allusion being to the watercourses, which in hot countries intersect fields and gardens for the purpose of irrigatio...
113. CHAPTER XXV.With this chapter begins the fourth main division of this book, consisting, as its introductory words inform us, of sayings and perhaps writings of Solomon, which were placed to...
100. iii. 14) set forth His eternal self-existence, but He has alsorevealed Himself by names which are used to express human relations, such as king, judge, husband, father. These names are often borne by men who are destitute of the qualificat...
35. CHAPTER III.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Keep.+ This word, says Miller primarily means to look _hard at_, and generally to _keep watch over_, as over a vineyard. +2. Length of days,+ properly "exte...
43. CHAPTER VI.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. With+ a stranger, rather, "for" a stranger. +3. When thou art come,+ rather, "for thou hast come." +Humble thyself,+ literally "let thyself be trodden under...
116. CHAPTER XXVII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+4.+ Delitzsch reads this verse _"The madness of anger and the overflowing of wrath, and before jealousy who keeps his place?"_ +5. Secret love.+ Zöckler and Hi...
56. CHAPTER X.We here enter upon the second main division of the Book of Proverbs, which is composed of a number of distinct propositions or maxims, having but little connection with each oth...
65. x. 27), and He repeats this foundation in principle in His last+II. A woman with such a character wins honour.+ The strong men to whom she is compared (see Critical Notes) are warriors who take the spoil by strength of hand, such men as Oth...
33. CHAPTER I.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Proverbs.+ See Introduction. +2. Instruction,+ properly "chastisement," signifying moral training, admonition, then good habits, the practical side of wisdo...
79. CHAPTER XIV.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Wise woman,+ or "woman's wisdom." +2. He that walketh,+ etc., or, "He walketh in his uprightness who feareth Jehovah, and perverse in his ways is he that de...
94. CHAPTER XVII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Sacrifices,+ literally _killings, i.e.,_ slain beasts, not necessarily animals killed for sacrifice. +2. A son that causeth shame,+ rather, a _degenerate so...
101. CHAPTER XIX.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1.+ Delitzsch translates the last clause, _"Than one with perverse lips, and so a fool."_ +2. Sinneth,+ literally "goeth astray." Delitzsch reads the last clau...
58. ii. 7); and hence, of course, not to lay our plans so that weThe dissembler walks in crooked paths. Like Judas, who put on a cloak of charity to hide his covetousness (John xii. 6), he conceals the selfish principles which regulate his be...
61. ix. 11), even when the runners and the warriors are men after God's+I. That when a good man gains riches through hard toil, it is by reason of the Divine blessing on his labour.+ There are among us many possessors of vast wealth who have risen...
117. CHAPTER XXVIII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+2. For the transgression,+ etc. Or, _"In the rebellion."_ "For this use of the word transgression in the sense of _revolt,_ compare the verb employed in this s...
55. CHAPTER IX.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Wisdom,+ in the plural, as in chap. i. 20, to express excellence and dignity. +2. She hath mingled her wine.+ Some commentators understand the mingling to b...
118. CHAPTER XXIX.CRITICAL NOTES.--+4. He that receiveth gifts.+ Zöckler translates this, _"a man of taxes."_ +7. Considereth.+ Literally _knoweth._ Zöckler and Delitzsch translate the latter cla...
136. chapter viii., verse 21, capitalise "Authorised Version." Verse- Page 100, notes on personification, remove point "1" as a singleton. Correct the "Deut. xxxii. 6" reference by changing the comma after the chapter number to a period. In the...
105. cxxxix. 2, 3)--how can even the mightiest of men boast of hisindependence of God and foretell what shall be the issue of his most sagacious counsels, or be confident that he shall be allowed to carry out even the most matured of his purpo...
67. xix. 22) and they which will take him up from the ground, and carryThe desire of all, as it is desire, is only _of good;_ but as desire is accomplished, so it is the desire of the righteous only that is good, and their desire accomplished is _g...
111. CHAPTER XXIV.CRITICAL NOTES.--+5. A man of knowledge,+ rather _"a man of understanding,"_ +increaseth strength,+ literally _"maketh power strong."_ Miller translates the entire verse thus:--...
34. CHAPTER II.CRITICAL NOTES.--+2. Incline.+ To _sharpen_ or prick the ear, like an animal. +5. God.+ _Elohim._ One of five instances in the book in which God is thus designated, the appellat...
110. iii. 5), and our Lord when on earth could endure without anger allcontradiction of sinners against Himself (Heb. xii. 3) except hypocrisy. This always set His holy nature on fire with indignation and called forth the only Woes that ever passed...
83. i. 1) declares plainly that man needs something outside of himself toguide him into that path of righteousness which alone is a way of life. The history of the world confirms this truth. Observation of every-day life tells the same tale.
37. CHAPTER IV.CRITICAL NOTES.--+2. Doctrine,+ Literally something received, handed over; the author so describes it because he received it from his father. The Septuagint and the Vulgate tran...
75. xii. 27), it is a solid product; we must stir up ourselves to takehold on God (Isa. lxiv. 7). With no exceptions, such as are on "change," it is the _"diligent soul"_ that _"shall be made fat"_ and the _yearning sluggard,_ at the very last, _"...
97. xxii. 13), but men who have not possessed the light of revelation+IV. Its effect.+ It "perverts the ways of justice." Its effect is to bring about that abomination mentioned in verse 15--the justification of the wicked and the condemnation of...
121. i. 5)--therefore, rays of moral light must flow from Him; all that+III. Because the Word of God is what it is, it must be carefully preserved from human additions.+ It is manifest that nothing that man can add to what God has said can make His...
104. vii. 8)--to the general intent and purpose of his life being towardGod and goodness--to his being in the main faithful to his convictions of the right and true. (On this subject see on chap. xi. 3, page 196.) And although _faithful_ men are sti...
102. xxii. 15)--is the season when the good can be effected with the mostease, and the fewest strokes. The lesson of obedience should be learnt at the first dawn. One decided struggle and victory _in very early life,_ may, under God, do much towards...
112. xiii. 7); and when duty has compelled them to disobey their commandsthey have done so with all due respect for their lawful authority. That fear of God which compels them to disobey unrighteous laws makes them obedient subjects to lawful rule, a...
40. CHAPTER V.CRITICAL NOTES.--+2. Discretion,+ Lit. "reflection," "prudent consideration." +3. Drop as an honey-comb,+ "distil honey." +4. Wormwood.+ In Eastern countries this herb, the _abs...
114. CHAPTER XXVI.CRITICAL NOTES.--+2.+ The first clause of this verse should be, +As the sparrow flitting, as the swallow flying,+ etc. +Causeless,+ _i.e., "undeserved"--i.e.,_ Such a curse is b...
88. xi. 7), for to its blessed influence we owe all the joy that fillsour hearts when we look abroad upon the beauties of the natural world. 3. _It ought to rejoice the heart of man on account of its symbolic suggestions._ God intends the light of...
52. xix. 16), and of whom it is written, "that by Him were all thingsKings are kings only as they are wise, that is, wise in the sense of holiness. It does not mean holiness as altogether distinct from virtue, but holiness as that moral right whi...
36. iv. 7) and gives the sweet sleep promised in verse 24, even althoughoutward circumstances may be apparently adverse (_see illustration_). This was the experience of David in the night of his adversity, even although he had brought it upon himsel...
77. xvii. 10), such unworthy, such defiled work should be so honouredTo be out of the hands of evil is not to be free from it; for it still pursueth sinners, and it ceaseth not until it be gotten to the place where they are. . . . For, as St. Aug...
85. xii. 28) (see Critical Notes) the expressive and distinctive word forWe are not able to form a right conception of what it is to be and to abide in wickedness. Because it is so near us, we do not know it. If it were a body standing before us, we...
96. ii. 17), and thus prove Himself to be pre-eminently the "Brother born+IV. It is an evidence of great folly to treat men as bosom-friends before we know them.+ There are men who will trust in a comparative stranger to such an extent as to lend the...
87. vi. 8), and such men shall live in the sunshine of His eternal favourA man may be said to be covetous when he takes more pains for the getting of earth than for the getting of heaven. He will turn every stone, break his sleep, take any a weary st...
39. xxiii. 12); and many a plot in after ages against the Church--allJust as bread forms the flesh, and makes it grow, according as it is eaten, so wickedness is the food of the spirit. "My meat is," says Christ, "to do the will of Him that sent...
72. ix. 21), gives a special significance to the+I. The causes of "heaviness of heart" are many and various.+ It may arise, 1. _From great bodily pain._ The human mind and the human body act and re-act upon each other. The mi...
122. CHAPTER XXXI.CRITICAL NOTES.--+Lemuel.+ This Hebrew word signifies _"For God,"_ or _"belonging to God,"_ and is regarded by most commentators as a proper name. +The prophecy.+ Delitzsch, Stu...
54. liii. 11), although even then He knew at what a cost this work wouldNOTE ON THE RELATION OF THE SON OF GOD TO THE FATHER. (Verses 22-30, John i. 1). On this subject Dr. John Brown says, "That the Son is essentially and eternally related to the F...
50. xi. 28), because His words were truth, and plainness, and certainty+III. The wisdom of God is appreciated by those who have realised its adaptation to human needs.+ (Ver. 9.) There is a twofold knowledge, or "understanding," of Divine truth, as...
69. CHAPTER XII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Instructions,+ "discipline" or "disciplinary instruction." +2. Obtaineth,+ literally "draws out." +4. Virtuous,+ literally "strenuous," "capable" (used in R...
93. xii. 12), and the contempt of this wisdom was the destruction of akingdom (1 Kings xii. 13-20). But the diamond in the _crown_ is, when it is found in the way of righteousness. Even a heathen monarch did homage to it (Gen. xlvii. 7-10); an ung...
98. CHAPTER XVIII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Through desire, etc.+ The readings and expositions of this verse are many. Zöckler translates, _"He that separateth himself seeketh his own pleasure, agains...
62. i. 18-20), they are to him only mighty and resistless engines ofdestruction. 3. _Of Jehovah's way of grace._ The upright man has gained his strength to be upright from the way of Divine forgiveness. Even a child feels stronger when assured o...
99. ill. Our first parents lost Eden by listening to the words of thetempter, and the speech of the wicked always diffuses an unwholesome moral atmosphere around it, if it does not eject a deadly poison into the soul. But the conversation and tea...
74. CHAPTER XIII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Instruction,+ or "correction." The Hebrew is literally, "a wise son _is_ his father's correction," _i.e.,_ is the product of his father's correction; or "he...
95. xxxiv. 7) and, therefore, that "without the shedding of blood is noremission" (Heb. ix. 22), when learned, is half the Gospel. To learn it easily, would imply that "then hath the offence of the Cross ceased" (Gal. v. 11). God will not condemn H...
109. CHAPTER XXIII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. When thou sittest,+ etc. Miller here translates _"Forasmuch as thou sittest,"_ and applying the word _ruler_ to God gives to the proverb a meaning entirely...
103. CHAPTER XX.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Strong drink.+ The Hebrew word _Shekhar_ includes every strong drink besides wine. Delitzsch translates it _mead._ +2. The fear of a king,+ _i.e.,_ the drea...
59. xxv. 4); more precious to those who are conscious of theirsoul-poverty "than thousands of gold and silver" (Psalm cxix. 72); and it is in proportion as men are like Him in character and disposition that their speech will bless the world.
120. iii. 13); and speaks of it as being where the Man Christ Jesus wasnot, viz., in Heaven. But the fourth verse of this chapter mentions both Father and Son; and therefore in this, which is so near it, it is not necessary to distinguish. _The Str...
51. iv. 4), when all the streams of human wisdom and greatness which hadbeen flowing through the world for ages, had converged into one head and were seen to be powerless to accomplish the regeneration of the world. Then "God sent forth His Son." 2....
47. CHAPTER VIII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+Places of the paths+ "in the midst of the highways." "These ways are roads, solitary paths, not streets in the city, and the delineation proceeds in such an or...
45. vii. 26, says, "There are strong grounds for thinking that the womanof the Proverbs is the personification of heathenish folly, putting on the airs of wisdom and penetrating into the territory of the Israelites. . . . The key to Prov. ii. 16, 17...
46. vi. 20-35 particularly urged a contending against the inner roots andgerms of the sin of unchastity, our passage dwells with special fulness upon the temptations from without to the transgression of the sixth commandment. It also sets for the fol...
71. iv. 4) had not come, by which we understand that the world then wasnot in a condition to profit by a revelation of it. Our Lord charged His disciples not to disclose what they had witnessed on the mount of transfiguration until "the Son of Man...
115. xviii. 11) who are outwardly immoral, and forgets that if he is not_sensual_ he may be _devilish_ (Jas. iii. 15), may be under the dominion on the sin that made the first and greatest sinner in the universe. It was men of this class, and not th...
57. xix. 11), and the blessedness that he has tasted he knows to be butthe earnest of what is to be in the future, and therefore he is willing to sacrifice present advantage and worldly ease to obedience to them. He is like the trader who has recei...
89. CHAPTER XVI.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1.+ Nearly all commentators agree in reading this verse, _"To man belong the preparations of the heart, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord."_ +Prepa...
49. i. 24), "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge(Col. ii. 3). To say the least, the language is admirably adapted to set forth the Incarnate Son, the Saviour of the world. The introductory paragraph reveals _the intense desir...
107. xv. 9, page 408), but this comparatively negative wrong seems to losesome of its guilt beside the actual crime of the second clause of the verse, when men actually put on the outward semblance of religion, not from inadequate ideas of the require...
135. chapter xxviii. 25a. Chapter xxviii. 25, 26, change to 25b, andchange page reference to 752 from 751. Chapter xxviii. 28, change reference to chapter xi. 10-11 from xi. 10. Chapter xxix. 2, change reference to chapter xi. 10-11 from xi. 10....
63. CHAPTER XI.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Just weight,+ literally, "a stone of completeness, a full stone." Stone was a very ancient material for weight; not rusting, it was not changeable. +2.+ Lit...
119. CHAPTER XXX.CRITICAL NOTES.--+1. Agur.+ There have been many conjectures about this person. Many consider that it is a figurative name, and some have adopted the old Jewish tradition that i...
78. iv. 8), but not always, and wickedness often brings a man literallyto the condition of the prodigal when he would "fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat;" but many a wicked man, like him of the parable (Luke xvi. 19),...
32. CHAPTER XXXI.The Hebrew word for proverb _(mashal)_ means a comparison. Hence it includes more than we generally understand by the English word, viz., a pithy sentence expressing in a few wo...
91. iii. 5) in so far as we believe in a living God, isMan doth not carry himself one-half of the way, and then as one wearied is carried the rest by God. But it is God who supporteth him in the heart as well as in the tongue: it is...
41. ix. 12), of One who hast power most terrible, of One who has always+II. Because, though the sinner may not be apprehended by human law, he shall be laid hold of and bound by his own deeds+ (verse 22). Many sinners of this kind go at large in th...
68. xviii. 35) when he sinned the great sin which was the curse of allhis after life. The God whom men fancy will be thus indulgent is not the God of the Bible--the God of Sinai--the God who visited the sin even of His servant Moses. "Let us sin t...
44. CHAPTER VII.CRITICAL NOTES.--+2. Apple of the eye,+ the "pupil," literally the "little man" of the eye, referring to the reflected image of a man seen in that organ. +3. Bind them+ "refers...
81. i. 10, 13, 16): nor Gehazi into that of the Shunamite woman (2 Kingsiv. 27). Michal, though the wife of David, was "a stranger to his joy" at the bringing up of the ark to Zion (1 Sam. xviii. 13, 20, with 2 Sam. vi. 12-16).--_Fausset._
38. vi. 11, 12), to get well into the way of wisdom, to know fromexperience the blessedness of the path of the just. Men must have a "way" in life, there is no neutral ground; or if some men seem for a time to be living in the border-land, a...
90. xxxvi. 26); draws it that it may follow; quickens it that it maylive. He opens the heart that He may imprint His own law, and mould it into His own image (Acts xvi. 14; Jer. xxxi. 33). He works, not merely by moral suasion or by the bare pro...
82. chapter ii. 21, 22, etc.The wicked build houses on the earth; the earth is their home, where they desire to be, and they imagine to settle themselves in it. The upright do set up tabernacles only, seek...
66. vii. 15-17 severs himself in twain,--himself as he is spiritual fromhimself as he is carnal--so the righteous man here must be taken for the I that would do the good, the I that hates the evil. There is a spring that yieldeth water good and clea...
60. vii. 38) that they may flow from him to quench that world ofwickedness, that, being set on fire of hell would set on fire the whole course of nature (Jas. iii. 6). They are "_empty_ vines that bear fruit to themselves" (Hosea x. 1).--_Tr...
80. xii. 15), "Rejoice with them that do rejoice," and to the saying,"Distributed joy is doubled joy, distributed sorrow is half sorrow;" and an admonition to leave man alone with his joy, instead of urging him to distribute it, does not run para...
73. i. 6) that "the way of the ungodly shall perish;" that is, not onlyshall they not reach their end, but their very way shall die down and perish. They shall cease to take an interest in it. But this passage goes deeper. It says the path of right...
48. viii. 30-36): 'At all events, while, on the one hand, none can_demonstrate_ that Christ is here directly intended, on the other, none can prove that He is not contemplated; and perhaps both will admit that, under certain conditions, langua...
28. CHAPTER XXVIII.Critical Notes 1 Cowardice and Courage 2 The Penalty of Revolt 3 The Most Inexcusable Oppressor 4, 5 Lawkeepers and Lawbreakers 6 See Homiletics on chap. xix. 1 7 See Homiletics...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Critical Notes 1 The House Builder and the House Destroyer 2 Fearing and Despising the Lord 3 Speech a Rod 4 The Clean Crib 5 Outlines and Suggestive Comments. 6 Seeking, but No...
11. CHAPTER XI.Critical Notes 1 Just Weight 2 Pride and Humility 3 The Infallible Guide 4 See Homiletics on chap. x. 2 5, 6 Made or Marred by Desires 7 The Death of the Wicked 8 The Wicked Com...
20. CHAPTER XX.Critical Notes 1 Strong Drink 2, 3 See Homiletics on chaps. xiv. 29, xvi. 32, xix. 12 4 See Homiletics on chap. x. 4 5 Deep Sea Dredging 6-12 An Universal Challenge, a General R...
21. CHAPTER XXI.Critical Notes 1 The King of Kings 2 See Homiletics on chap. xvi. 2 3 The More Acceptable Sacrifice 4 The Ploughing of the Wicked 5-7, 17 Two Ways to Wealth 8 Two Ways 9, 19 An...
10. CHAPTER X.Critical Notes 1 Parental Grief and Gladness 2 The Comparative Value of Righteousness and Riches 3, 4 Divine and Human Providence 5 The Use and the Neglect of Opportunities 6, 7...
15. CHAPTER XV.Critical Notes 1, 2 The Use of Knowledge 3 Divine Intelligence 4, 5 Outlines and Suggestive Comments. 6 Like in Circumstances, but Unlike in Character 7 Outlines and Suggestive...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Critical Notes 1 See Homiletics on chap xv., 17 2 The Foolish Son and the Wise Servant 3 The Trier of Hearts 4 The Evil Speaker and the Listener 5 A Double Revelation 6 Father a...
12. CHAPTER XII.Critical Notes 1 The Love of Knowledge and the Proof of It 2 Outlines and Suggestive Comments. 3 A Right Desire and the Means of Its Attainment 4 A Husband's Crown 5-8 Thoughts...
22. CHAPTER XXII.Critical Notes 1 Better Than Gold 2 Levelling Down and Levelling Up 3 See Homiletics on chap. xiv. 16 4 See Homiletics on chap. iii. 1-18 5, 6 A Hedged-Up Way 7 An Analogy Affir...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Critical Notes 1 The Better Part 2, 3 Ignorance Leading to Sin 4 Suggestive Comment. 5, 9 The End of a False Tongue 6, 7 Two Proofs of Human Selfishness 8, 9 See Homiletics on v...
129. Chapter xviii. 13, change "Answering before Hearing" to capitalise"Before." Chapter xix. 2, 3, change "Influence leading to Sin" to capitalise "Leading." Chapter xix. 8-9, change the homiletics references to pages 121 and 124, from 122 and 128...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Critical Notes 1 The Wise Son and the Scorner 2, 3 Keeping the Mouth 4 The Disappointment of the Sluggard's Desires 5 A Lawful Hatred 6 Overthrow by Sin 7, 8 The Law of Compensa...
25. CHAPTER XXV.Critical Notes 1-3 God's Mysteries and Man's Research 4, 5 See Homiletics on chap. xx. 26 and 28 6, 7 Self-promotion 8-11 Two Ways of Treating an Enemy 12 Giving and Taking 13 S...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Critical Notes 1 The Heart and the Tongue 2 The Weigher of Spirits 3 The Establishment of Thoughts 4 All Things for God 5 Heart-Pride 6 The Purging of Iniquity 7 Pleasing God 8...
29. CHAPTER XXIX.Critical Notes 1 Reproof and Destruction 2 See Homiletics on chap. xi. 10-11 3 See Homiletics on chaps. x. 1, v. 1-20 4 See Homiletics on chap. xvi. 10-15 5 See Homiletics on ch...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Critical Notes 1, 2 Solitude 3 The Short-lived Prosperity of Evil Men 4 A Good Man's Mouth 5 See Homiletics on chap. xvii. 15 and 26 6-8 Folly and Its Results 9 Twin-Brothers 10...
1. Volume 13VERSES CHAPTER I. Critical Notes 1-4 The Author, His Method and His Object 5, 6 The Characteristics of a Wise Man 7-9 The Root of True Knowledge and the Means of Its Attainment...
24. CHAPTER XXIV.Critical Notes 1-6 House Building 7 A False Estimate and a True One 8, 9 See Homiletics on chap. vi. 12-19 10 The Day of Adversity 11, 12 Positive Punishment for a Negative Crim...
27. CHAPTER XXVII.Critical Notes 1 Divine Property 2 Self Praise 3, 4 Wrath and Envy 5, 6, 9-11, 14 Tests of Friendship 7 Want of Appetite 8 A Man and His Place 12 See Homiletics on chap. xiv. 15...
42. xx. 11 declares that the old sinner's "bones are full of the sins ofhis youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust." Augustine, after experience, says: "While lust is being served the habit is formed, and whilst the habit is not being resi...
3. CHAPTER III.Critical Notes 1-4 Blessings from the Remembrance of God's Commandments 5, 6 Exhortation to Confidence in God 7-12 The Way (1) to Health, (2) to Wealth, (3) to Endurance 13-18 W...
30. xix. 13, 14, 1816 Victory Not with the Majority 17 See Homiletics on chap. xix. 13, 14, 18 18 Divine Revelation and Human Obedience 19, 21 Masters and Servants 20, 22 See Homiletics on chap. x...
131. xxii. 10, change "A Man who Ought to Dwell Alone" to capitalise31. CHAPTER XXX.Critical Notes 1-9 The Sources of True Humility 5, 6 The Word of God 7-9 The Middle Way 10 See Homiletics on chap. xxiv. 28, 29 11-17 Four Manifestations of Ungodliness 18-20 De...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Critical Notes 1-3 The Nature of Wisdom's Call 4-9 God's Speech Meeting Man's Need 10, 11 Wisdom Better Than Wealth 12, 13 Wisdom and Prudence 14-16 The Source of True Power 17-...
125. Chapter xii. 25, change "Heaviness of Heart and its Cure" to- TOC, page vii. (unnumbered in original), chapter xiii. 23, change "Land and its Tillers" to capitalise "Its." Chapter xiv. 6, change "Seeking but not Finding" to capitalise "N...
2. CHAPTER II.Critical Notes 1-5 Human Understanding and Divine Knowledge 6-11 God as a Giver, and Man as a Receiver 12-20 The Character of Those from Whom Wisdom Preserves 21, 22 The Contras...
130. Chapter xxi. 11, change "Instruction for those who Need It" tocapitalise "Those" and "Who." Chapter xxi. 23, change the homiletics reference to chapter xiii. 2-3 from xiii. 3. Chapter xxii. 1, change "Better than Gold" to capitalise "Than....
23. CHAPTER XXIII.Critical Notes 1-3 The Temptations of the Table 4, 5 The Deceitfulness of Riches 6-8 Feigned Generosity 9 The Morally Incurable 10, 11 The Rights of Private Property 12-28 Paren...
6. CHAPTER VI.Critical Notes 1-5 Self-Imposed Bondage 6-11 Industry and Indolence 12-19 A Student of Iniquity 20-23 The Law of God's Word 24-35 A Special Sin and Its Penalties from Which He W...
126. Chapter xv. 16, change "A Treasure without Trouble" to capitalise26. CHAPTER XXVI.Critical Notes 1 A Gift Wrongly Bestowed 2 The Causeless Curse 3-11 A Low Level 12-16 Self-Conceit and Indolence 17 Needless Interference 18-22 See Homiletics on chaps. xvii. 14...
134. chapter xi. 10-11 from xi. 10. Chapter xxviii. 14, change secondreference to chapter xix. 15-18 from xiv. 16. Chapter xxviii. 18, change first reference to chapter x. 9-10, from x. 9. Chapter xxviii. 24, change page reference to 751 from 749...
133. Chapter xxviii. 6, change page reference to 561 from 582. Chapterxxviii. 9, change page reference to 406 from 407, 408. Chapter xxviii. 10, change reference to chapter xxvi. 23-28 from xxvi. 27 and page 721 from 722. Chapter xxviii. 12, chang...
128. Chapter xvii. 10, change "Correction must be Adapted" tocapitalise "Must." Chapter xvii. 24, change "The Eyes of a Fool and those of a Wise Man" to capitalise "Those." Chapter xviii. 6-8, change "Folly and its Results" to capitalise...
123. xi. 12, 13, change "Contempt and Tale-bearing" to capitalise"Bearing." Chapter xi. 22, change "Precious Things possessed by Unworthy Owners" to capitalise "Possessed." Chapter xii. 1, change "The Love of Knowledge and the Proof of it" to...
127. xvi. 27-30, change "Different Species of the same Genus" tocapitalise "Same." Chapter xvi. 33, change "The Lot and its Disposer" to capitalise "Its." Chapter xvii. 9, change "How to make Friends and How to Separate Them" to capitalise "...
53. xv. 47), gave joy to his Creator, how much more must He have rejoiced4. CHAPTER IV.132. Chapter xxv. 27, change "Too much of a Good Thing" to capitalise124. Chapter xii. 3, change "A Right Desire and the Means of its5. CHAPTER V.7. CHAPTER VII.9. CHAPTER IX.