ProverbsKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Company, 1891 - 610 pages |
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... object is partly moral and partly intellectual ; it seeks to instruct in the way of wisdom , to edify those who have already made pro- gress , and to discipline hearers to receive and assimilate the highest teach- ing . The wisdom ...
... object is partly moral and partly intellectual ; it seeks to instruct in the way of wisdom , to edify those who have already made pro- gress , and to discipline hearers to receive and assimilate the highest teach- ing . The wisdom ...
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... object of all his discourses , the author introduces her as inviting all to follow her , descanting on her excellence , her heavenly origin , her inestimable blessings . This is the most important section concerning Wisdom , which here ...
... object of all his discourses , the author introduces her as inviting all to follow her , descanting on her excellence , her heavenly origin , her inestimable blessings . This is the most important section concerning Wisdom , which here ...
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... object of quest ( ch . xxii . 1 ) ; sloth , drunkenness , and gluttony are to be avoided because they impoverish a man ( ch . xxi . 17 ; xxiii . 20 , 21 ; xxiv . 33 , 34 ) ; we should avoid companionship with the evil because they will ...
... object of quest ( ch . xxii . 1 ) ; sloth , drunkenness , and gluttony are to be avoided because they impoverish a man ( ch . xxi . 17 ; xxiii . 20 , 21 ; xxiv . 33 , 34 ) ; we should avoid companionship with the evil because they will ...
Page ix
... object of our book , and with the gradual development of doctrine observed in the Old Testament , wherein is seen that the Law was a tutor to bring men to Christ . The first collection of proverbs is followed by two appendices enunciat ...
... object of our book , and with the gradual development of doctrine observed in the Old Testament , wherein is seen that the Law was a tutor to bring men to Christ . The first collection of proverbs is followed by two appendices enunciat ...
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... object the instruction of his people , the training of them in sound views of life and in the practice of virtue and religion , he would embody his views in terse and pithy sentences , charming the imagination and easy to be remem ...
... object the instruction of his people , the training of them in sound views of life and in the practice of virtue and religion , he would embody his views in terse and pithy sentences , charming the imagination and easy to be remem ...
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Authorized Version blessing Book of Proverbs bring character Christ Christian clause comp danger death Delitzsch Deut distich Divine duty Ecclus eternal evil expression eyes faith father favour fear folly fool foolish Gesenius give gnome God's grace hand hath heart Hebrew hemistich Hitzig holy HOMILETICS honour human Jehovah king knowledge labour lips literally live Lord man's Matt means mercy mind moral mouth musar nature neighbour ness ourselves path pleasure poor prosperity proverb prudence punishment regard religion rendered rich righteous ruin says seek sense Septuagint shame sheol sinner sins slothful Solomon sorrow soul spirit Syriac Talmud Targum Jonathan teacher teaching thee Theodotion thine things thou thought tion true truth unto verb Vers verse viii Vulgate warning wealth wicked wisdom wise words xvii xviii xxii xxiv Zöckler
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Page 311 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me ; He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God: and He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 507 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 465 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 481 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page xxvii - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page iii - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
Page 199 - ... fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness : for bodily exercise is profitable for a little ; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 384 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity, for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Page 91 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Page 97 - The world was void, The populous and the powerful - was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless A lump of death - a chaos of hard clay.