As servants, and clients, and others wait at the doors of princes or persons of eminency for place, or power, or wisdom, that they may be admitted to speak or converse with them. read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:36. Sinneth against, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch, and Miller.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 8:32-36EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WISDOMI. Because Christ, the Eternal Wisdom, has manifested His sympathy with man, we are under obligations to come into sympathy with Him. A man who has manifested his sympathy with, and delight in, another’s welfare by most substantial acts of benevolence and self-denial, has taken the most reasonable... read more
Chapter 8In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" ( Colossians 2:3 ). So there are analogies that can definitely be drawn. Because Christ is the soul, the heart of wisdom. "In Him all the treasures of wisdom." So there are definite analogies that can be made to wisdom and to Jesus Christ, and there... read more
Proverbs 8:1 . Doth not Wisdom cry? This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God. See on chap. 3. Proverbs 8:3 . She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city. The gate was the usual place where the elders sat at proper times, and heard complaints. It is probable that the prophets often addressed the people in the area of the gate. Jeremiah delivered his... read more
Proverbs 8:22-36The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way.Wisdom the first creation of GodHere is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--an idea which is in deep harmony with all the best knowledge of our time--that there is nothing fortuitous in the creation of the world; the Creator is not a blind Force, but an intelligent Being whose first creation is wisdom. He is the origin of a law by which He means to bind Himself;... read more
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors.Attending public instruction recommendedI. The reasonableness of attending all the instituted means of our instruction. If God had never vouchsafed to men a positive revelation, we should have been obliged to feel after virtue if haply we might find it. And it is surprising to what lengths some have arrived without the help of that “grace which bringeth salvation.” But when it hath... read more
Pro 8:34 Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Ver. 34. Waiting at the posts of my doors. ] At the schools and synagogues, say the Hebrews, where men should come in with the first, and go forth with the last, as doorkeepers do, which was the office that David desired. Psa 84:10 read more
watching: Proverbs 1:21, Proverbs 2:3, Proverbs 2:4, Psalms 27:4, Psalms 84:10, Psalms 92:13, Matthew 7:24, Luke 1:6, Luke 10:39, Luke 11:28, John 8:31, John 8:32, Acts 2:42, Acts 17:11, Acts 17:12, James 1:22-Lamentations : Reciprocal: Exodus 38:8 - assembling 1 Kings 10:8 - happy are these 2 Kings 4:38 - were sitting 2 Chronicles 9:7 - General Nehemiah 8:13 - the second Nehemiah 12:44 - Judah rejoiced Psalms 25:5 - on thee Proverbs 13:4 - but Proverbs 19:20 - receive Proverbs 22:17 - and... read more
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.Waiting — As servants or clients, wait at the doors of princes or persons of eminency. read more
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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36
Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person.— This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1-Judges : with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller... read more