the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 9:1
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Wisdom has built her house; she has carved its seven columns.
Wisdom has built her house; She has cut out her seven pillars:
Wisdom has built her house; she has made its seven columns.
Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out its seven pillars.
Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
Wisdom has built her [spacious and sufficient] house; She has hewn out and set up her seven pillars.
Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
Wisdom bildide an hous to him silf; he hewide out seuene pileris,
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
Wisdom has built her house with its seven columns.
Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.
Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars.
Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;
Wisdom has built her house; she has made it strong with seven columns.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;
Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars.
Wisdom has built her house. She has made seven pillars to hold it up.
Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars.
Wisedome hath built her house, and hewen out her seuen pillars.
WISDOM has built her house, she has set up in it seven pillars;
Wisdom has built her house and made seven columns for it.
Wisdom, hath builded her house, hath hewn out her seven pillars;
Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.
Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.
Wysdome hath buylded her house, and hewen out seuen pillers:
Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars.
Wisdom has built her house;
Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars;
Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars -- seven.
Wysdome hath buylded herself an house, and hewen out seuen pilers:
Lady Wisdom has built and furnished her home; it's supported by seven hewn timbers. The banquet meal is ready to be served: lamb roasted, wine poured out, table set with silver and flowers. Having dismissed her serving maids, Lady Wisdom goes to town, stands in a prominent place, and invites everyone within sound of her voice: "Are you confused about life, don't know what's going on? Come with me, oh come, have dinner with me! I've prepared a wonderful spread—fresh-baked bread, roast lamb, carefully selected wines. Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the street to a life with meaning."
Wisdom has built her house, She has carved out her seven pillars;
Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;
Wisdom has built her house,She has hewn out her seven pillars;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Wisdom: The infinite and eternal Wisdom of God, which has so framed the universe as to exhibit a scene of grandeur and stability, and made ample provision for the innumerable beings by which it is inhabited.
builded: Matthew 16:18, 1 Corinthians 3:9-15, Ephesians 2:20-22, 1 Timothy 3:15, Hebrews 3:3-6, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:6
pillars: 1 Kings 7:2, 1 Kings 7:3, 1 Kings 7:6, 1 Kings 7:21, Galatians 2:9, Revelation 3:12
Reciprocal: Proverbs 8:1 - General Proverbs 24:3 - wisdom Isaiah 25:6 - make Zephaniah 1:7 - he hath Matthew 22:3 - sent Matthew 22:4 - Behold Luke 11:49 - the wisdom Luke 14:16 - A certain Luke 14:17 - his John 2:10 - but
Cross-References
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it."
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her: "Our sister, may you become The mother of thousands of ten thousands; And may your descendants possess The gates of those who hate them."
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wisdom hath builded her house,.... Or "Wisdoms": of which see Proverbs 1:20; Christ, the Wisdom of God, is meant, in whom and from whom all wisdom is. Various are the opinions concerning this house built by him. Some take it to be the whole circle of sciences, and the seven pillars to be the seven liberal ones, as Aben Ezra; though rather, as others, it may design the schools of the prophets, in which young men were trained up in the knowledge of divine and spiritual things. Some would have the whole universe to be meant, and the seven pillars to be the seven days of creation, as Jarchi; or the seven planets, as others: it is an odd notion of Grotius, that the human body is intended, with its five senses; and, to make up the number seven, adds the voice and memory: rather the human nature of Christ, which is a temple, a tabernacle, a house in which the Godhead dwells, is built by Wisdom, made without the hands of men; and then its seven pillars are the graces of the Spirit, by which it was supported and adorned; see
Isaiah 11:2; Some understand it of the temple of a regenerate man's heart; in which God, Father, Son and Spirit, dwell. But there are two other senses, which bid fairest one of them to be right; either the heavenly glory, the house not made with hands, Christ's Father's house, in which are many mansions for his people; and which is a city whose builder and maker is God, and is prepared by Christ; and stands firm upon the promises of God, the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ, and the grace of the blessed Spirit: or rather the church of Christ on earth, the house of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth; this is built by Christ upon himself, the rock and foundation; the materials of it are true believers, precious and lively stones; built up a spiritual house, and a fit and suitable habitation for God through the Spirit. Such a house there was under the Old Testament, and such an one there is under the New; and which is continually building up by Christ by means of the word and ordinances, and will continue to the end of the world; see 1 Timothy 3:15;
she hath hewn out her seven pillars; ministers of the Gospel, compared to pillars for strength and stability, and for their being instrumental in supporting the interest and church of Christ; in allusion to the pillars in Solomon's temple, Jachin and Boaz; see Galatians 2:9. These are said to be "hewn", being polished, beautified, and adorned with the gifts and graces of the Spirit by Christ, and thereby fitted for their work and service; and said to be "seven", because there is a complete and sufficient number of them, which Christ has provided, and always will provide for his churches, as long as they continue in the world. Though it may be these seven pillars may denote in general the firmness and solidity of this spiritual building, the church, and the continuance of it by the power of God; or they may have respect to the seven states of the church in so many periods of time, to last to the end of all things, signified by the seven churches in the book of the Revelation; so Cocceius c.
c Vid. Lexic. Heb. col. 623.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A parable full of beauty, and interesting in its parallelism to the parables of our Lord Matthew 22:3-4; Luke 14:16.
Seven pillars - The number is chosen as indicating completeness and perfection. God revealing Himself in nature, resting in His work, entering into covenant with human beings - these were the ideas conveyed by it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER IX
Wisdom builds her house, makes her provision for a great feast,
calls her guests, and exhorts them to partake of her
entertainment, 14.
Different admonitions relative to the acquisition of wisdom,
7-12.
The character and conduct of a bad woman, 13-18.
NOTES ON CHAP. IX.
The same Wisdom speaks here who spoke in the preceding chapter. There she represented herself as manifest in all the works of God in the natural world; all being constructed according to counsels proceeding from an infinite understanding. Here, she represents herself as the great potentate, who was to rule all that she had constructed; and having an immense family to provide for, had made an abundant provision, and calls all to partake of it. This, says Calmet, is the continuation of the parable begun in the preceding chapter, where wisdom is represented as a venerable lady, whose real beauties and solid promises are opposed to the false allurements of PLEASURE, who was represented in the seventh chapter under the idea of a debauched and impudent woman. This one, to draw young people into her snares, describes the perfumes, the bed, and the festival which she has prepared. WISDOM acts in the same way: but, instead of the debauchery, the false pleasures, and the criminal connections which pleasure had promised, offers her guests a strong, well-built, magnificent palace, chaste and solid pleasures, salutary instructions, and a life crowned with blessedness. This is the sum and the substance of the parable; but as in the preceding part, so in this, men have produced strange creatures of their own brain, by way of explanation. One specimen of this mode of interpretation may suffice.
The house built by wisdom is the holy humanity of Jesus Christ; the seven pillars are the seven sacraments, or the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, or the whole of the apostles, preachers, and ministers of the Church; the slain beasts are the sacrifice of Christ's body upon the cross; and the bread and mingled wine are the bread and wine in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper! - FATHERS and DOCTORS.
If we have recourse to any other particulars than those given above in the summary of the chapter, let us follow the first part of the parable, where wisdom is represented as laying the plan of the creation; and then perhaps we may say with safety, that wisdom, having produced the grand ichnograph or ground plot of the whole, with all the requisite elevations and specifications of materials, comes to show us, in this part, that the whole has been constructed on this plan; and specifies the end for which this august building has been raised.
Verse Proverbs 9:1. Wisdom hath builded her house — The eternal counsel of God has framed the universe.
She hath hewn out her seven pillars — Every thing has been so constructed as to exhibit a scene of grandeur, stability, and durableness.
