Példabeszédek 8:1

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

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Bible Verse Review
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Proverbs 1:20, Proverbs 1:21, Proverbs 9:1-3, Isaiah 49:1-6, Isaiah 55:1-3, Matthew 3:3, Matthew 4:17, Matthew 28:19, Matthew 28:20, Mark 13:10, Mark 16:15, Mark 16:16, Luke 24:47, John 7:37, Acts 1:8, Acts 22:21, Romans 15:18-21

Reciprocal: Proverbs 9:3 - she crieth Isaiah 45:19 - spoken Isaiah 46:12 - Hearken Jeremiah 2:2 - cry Jeremiah 17:19 - General Matthew 10:27 - that preach Matthew 22:9 - General Luke 8:8 - He that Luke 11:49 - the wisdom Luke 14:7 - put John 6:59 - in the John 12:44 - cried Acts 17:17 - daily 1 Corinthians 1:24 - the wisdom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Doth not wisdom cry?.... Christ, who is the Wisdom of God;

:-; and which clearly appears from his subsistence with the Father, his eternal existence, and from many personal properties, characters, and actions ascribed to him throughout the whole of this chapter, and in the following. "Crying" is here attributed to him, which signifies proclaiming, publishing, preaching the everlasting Gospel, which directs men in the right way of enjoying peace, comfort, honour, and eternal happiness; the allusion is to an herald that this up his voice aloud at noon day in the public streets when he proclaims; and is opposed to the whispers of a harlot, at night, in a corner; truth seeks no corner, its voice is heard at noon day, it will bear the light. Now, "does not" or "shall not Wisdom cry", or Christ preach; verily he does or will, in his word, by his prophets under the former dispensation; in his own person, and by his apostles and ministers, under the present; who then would hearken to the alluring voice of a harlot, or hear Jezebel the wicked prophetess teach, when Christ himself preaches, or however by his faithful ministers?

and understanding put forth her voice? the same with Wisdom, or Christ, see Proverbs 8:14; by whose voice the Gospel is meant, which is the voice of Christ, which is heard and followed by the sheep of Christ, and not the voice of a stranger; and "putting it forth", giving or uttering it, signifies the publication of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A companion picture to that in Proverbs 7:0, and serving in some measure to generalize and idealize it. Wisdom also calls Proverbs 8:5 to the “simple” and the “fools,” and they have to choose between her voice and that of the temptress.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

The fame and excellence of wisdom, and its manner of teaching,

1-4;

the matter of its exhortations, 5-12;

its influence among men, 13-21;

its antiquity, 22-31;

the blessedness of attending to its counsels, 32-35;

the misery of those who do not, 36.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII.

Verse Proverbs 8:1. Doth not wisdom cry? — Here wisdom is again personified; but the prosopopoeia is carried on to a greater length than before, and with much more variety. It is represented in this chapter in a twofold point of view:

1. Wisdom, the power of judging rightly, implying the knowledge of Divine and human things.

2. As an attribute of God, particularly displayed in the various and astonishing works of creation.

Nor has it any other meaning in this whole chapter, whatever some of the fathers may have dreamed, who find allegorical meanings every where. The wise man seems as if suddenly awakened from the distressful contemplation which he had before him,-of the ruin of young persons in both worlds by means of debauchery,-by the voice of wisdom, who has lifted up her voice in the most public places, where was the greatest concourse of the people, to warn the yet unsnared, that they might avoid the way of seduction and sin; and cause those who love her to inherit substance, and to have their treasuries filled with durable riches.