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Amsal 1:7
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Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fear: Proverbs 9:10, Job 28:28, Psalms 111:10, Psalms 112:1, Ecclesiastes 12:13
beginning: or, principal part
but: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 5:12, Proverbs 5:13, Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 18:2, John 3:18-21, Romans 1:28
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:11 - Surely Genesis 22:12 - now Exodus 20:20 - his fear Leviticus 25:17 - fear Leviticus 26:15 - despise Deuteronomy 4:6 - this is your Deuteronomy 32:28 - General 1 Samuel 12:24 - fear the Lord Job 21:14 - for we Job 30:8 - fools Psalms 5:5 - The Psalms 14:1 - fool Psalms 25:12 - What Psalms 34:11 - I will Psalms 50:17 - hatest Psalms 95:10 - and they Psalms 119:150 - draw nigh Psalms 119:155 - for they Proverbs 9:18 - he Proverbs 15:33 - fear Proverbs 31:30 - a woman Jeremiah 7:28 - correction Zephaniah 3:2 - correction Haggai 1:12 - fear Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth Matthew 22:5 - they Acts 9:31 - and walking Acts 10:35 - feareth Romans 3:11 - none that understandeth 1 Thessalonians 4:8 - despiseth not 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - they received 1 Peter 2:17 - Fear
Cross-References
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.
And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.
And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so.
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.
And God sayde: beholde, I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede, which is in the vpper face of all ye earth, and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede, [that] they may be meate vnto you:
He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.
Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles: to flowe into the riuers.
Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The fear of the Lord [is] the beginning of knowledge,.... Here properly the book begins, and this is the first of the proverbs, and an excellent one; it is such an one as is not to be found in all the writings of the Heathens. By "the fear of the Lord" is not meant a servile fear, a fear of punishment, of hell, wrath, and damnation, which is the effect of the first work of the law upon the conscience; but a filial fear, and supposes knowledge of God as a father, of his love and grace in Christ, particularly of his forgiving love, from whence it arises, Psalms 130:4; it is a holy, humble, fiducial fear of God; a reverential affection for him, and devotion to him; it includes the whole of religious worship, both internal and external; all that is contained in the first table of the law, and the manner of performing it, and principle of acting: this is the first of all sciences to be learned, and it is the principal one; it is the basis and foundation of all the rest, on which they depend; and it is the head, the fountain, the root an source, from whence they spring; and unless a man knows God, knows God in Christ, and worships him in his fear, in spirit and in truth, according to his revealed will, he knows nothing as he ought to know; and all his knowledge will be of no avail and profit to him; this is the first and chief thing in spiritual and evangelical knowledge, and without which all natural knowledge will signify nothing; see Job 28:28;
[but] fools despise wisdom and instruction; the same with "knowledge" before; they do not desire the knowledge of God, and of his ways and worship, but despise it, make no account of it, but treat it with contempt; especially the knowledge of God in Christ, in which lies the highest wisdom, for this is "life eternal", John 17:3; they despise Christ "the Wisdom of God", and the Gospel, and the truths of it, which are "the hidden wisdom" of God; and all "instruction" into it, and the means of it; they despise the Scriptures, which are able to make a man "wise unto salvation"; and the ministry of the word, and the ministers of it: such sort of "discipline" n was this, as the word signifies, they dislike and abhor; and especially "correction" or "chastisement" o, which is also the sense of it; suffering reproach and affliction for the sake of wisdom, a profession of Christ and his Gospel; and they are fools with a witness that despise all this; such fools are atheists, deists, and all profane and wicked men. The Septuagint render it, "the ungodly"; and such sort of men are all along meant by "fools" in this book.
n מוסר "disciplinam", Tigurine version, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens, o "Castigationem, correctionem", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The beginning of wisdom is found in the temper of reverence and awe. The fear of the finite in the presence of the Infinite, of the sinful in the presence of the Holy (compare Job 42:5-6), this for the Israelite was the starting-point of all true wisdom. In the Book of Job 28:28 it appears as an oracle accompanied by the noblest poetry. In Psalms 111:10 it comes as the choral close of a temple hymn. Here it is the watchword of a true ethical education. This fear has no torment, and is compatible with child-like love. But this and not love is the “beginning of wisdom.” Through successive stages and by the discipline of life, love blends with it and makes it perfect.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:7. The fear of the Lord — In the preceding verses Solomon shows the advantage of acting according to the dictates of wisdom; in the following verses he shows the danger of acting contrary to them. The fear of the Lord signifies that religious reverence which every intelligent being owes to his Creator; and is often used to express the whole of religion, as we have frequently had occasion to remark in different places. But what is religion? The love of God, and the love of man; the former producing all obedience to the Divine will; the latter, every act of benevolence to one's fellows. The love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit produces the deepest religious reverence, genuine piety, and cheerful obedience. To love one's neighbour as himself is the second great commandment; and as love worketh no ill to one's neighbour, therefore it is said to be the fulfilling of the law. Without love, there is no obedience; without reverence, there is neither caution, consistent conduct, nor perseverance in righteousness.
This fear or religious reverence is said to be the beginning of knowledge; ראשית reshith, the principle, the first moving influence, begotten in a tender conscience by the Spirit of God. No man can ever become truly wise, who does not begin with God, the fountain of knowledge; and he whose mind is influenced by the fear and love of God will learn more in a month than others will in a year.
Fools despise — אוילים evilim, evil men. Men of bad hearts, bad heads, and bad ways.
