The precept is plain Turn you at my reproof. Those are the worst of fools that hate to be taught, and have a rooted dislike to serious godliness.
Scoffers at religion, that run down every thing sacred and serious. Proud, jovial people, that make a jest of every thing. Sinners are fond of their simple notions of good and evil, their simple prejudices against the ways of God, and flatter themselves in their wickedness. Three sorts of persons are here called by Him: 1. Verses 20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God. What is a man profited, though he gain the world, if he lose his life? much less if he lose his soul? Men's greediness of gain hurries them upon practices which will not suffer them or others to live out half their days. Would young people shun temporal and eternal ruin, let them refuse to take one step in these destructive paths. The way of sin is down-hill men cannot stop themselves. Men promise themselves in vain that sin will turn to their advantage. It is the ruinous mistake of thousands, that they overvalue the wealth of this world. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth but it is neither substance, nor precious. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do have no fellowship with them. But they have so much the more to answer for.
Verses 10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable let us value them, and then they shall be so to us. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. Verses 7-9 Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Christ is the Word and the Wisdom of God, and he is made to us wisdom. Christ speaks by his word and by his Spirit. Solomon speaks of the most important points of truth, and a greater than Solomon is here. If young people take heed to their ways, according to Solomon's Proverbs, they will gain knowledge and discretion. Verses 1-6 The lessons here given are plain, and likely to benefit those who feel their own ignorance, and their need to be taught. (10-19) The address of Wisdom to sinners. (1-6) Exhortations to fear God and obey parents. Their universal purity proves that they are the word of God. The principles of the Proverbs of Solomon are piety, charity, justice, benevolence, and true prudence. Take the proverbs of other nations, and we shall find great numbers founded upon selfishness, cunning, pride, injustice, national contempt, and animosities. Which treat of the giving to the simple sagacity to discover what is right, by supplying them with just principles, and correct views of virtue and vice and to the young man knowledge, so that he need not err through ignorance and discretion, so that by pondering well these precepts, he may not err through obstinacy.
Which treat of the attainment of instruction in wisdom, which wisdom is to be shown in the conduct of life, and consists in righteousness with regard to our fellow-creatures. Which treat of the knowledge of wisdom, of piety towards God, of instruction and moral discipline, of the understanding wise and prudent counsels. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses.
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