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Proverbs 8:1-36
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commentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 8:1-11The will of God is made known by the works of creation, and by the consciences of men, but more clearly by Moses and the prophets. The chief difficulty is to get men to attend to instruction. Yet attention to the words…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Invitation of WisdomTHE INVITATION OF WISDOM. The will of God revealed to us for our salvation is here largely represented to us as easy to be known and understood, that none may have an excuse for their ignorance or error, and as worthy t…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-21The excellency of Divine wisdom: No. 1 In these verses we have portrayed to us the surpassing excellency of the wisdom of God. I. IT IS AUDIBLE TO EVERY ONE. "Doth not Wisdom cry," etc.? (Proverbs 8:1; see homily on Pro…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-3614. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-27; and the exceeding greatness of the blessings which she offers exh…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-21Christ the Wisdom of God: No. 1 Though it is not to be supposed that Jesus Christ was in the mind of the writer of this passage, yet as he does personify wisdom, and as wisdom was incarnated in that Son of man who was t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 8:1Doth not Wisdom cry? (see on Proverbs 1:20, and Introduction). The interrogative form, which expects an affirmative answer, is a mode of asserting a truth universally allowed. Wisdom is personified, though we are not so…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-9Wisdom's proclamation Again it is a poetical personification of truth, of God's Word, of religion, morality, sense, prudence; for all these are included in the comprehensive conception of wisdom that is placed before us…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 8:2She standeth in the top of high places, by the way. She takes her stand, not in thievish corners of the streets, like the harlot, but in the most open and elevated parts of the city, where she may be best seen and heard…Joseph S. Exell and contributors