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Proverbios 1:24
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Porque he llamado y habéis rehusado oír, he extendido mi mano y nadie ha hecho caso;
Porque llam�, y no quisisteis o�r: Extend� mi mano, y no hubo quien atendiese;
Por cuanto llam�, y no quisisteis; extend� mi mano, y no hubo quien escuchase;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I have called: Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 65:12, Isaiah 66:4, Jeremiah 7:13, Ezekiel 8:18, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Matthew 22:5, Matthew 22:6, Matthew 23:37, Matthew 23:38, Hebrews 12:25, Hebrews 12:26
stretched: Psalms 31:20, Acts 4:30, Romans 10:21
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:34 - he cried Genesis 27:38 - General Exodus 10:3 - How long 2 Chronicles 36:16 - despised Nehemiah 9:17 - refused Job 33:14 - perceiveth Psalms 27:5 - For in Psalms 68:21 - of such Proverbs 15:32 - refuseth Proverbs 29:1 - General Proverbs 31:20 - She stretcheth Isaiah 65:2 - spread Jeremiah 6:19 - even Jeremiah 9:6 - refuse Jeremiah 35:17 - because Jeremiah 38:21 - if thou Zechariah 7:13 - as Matthew 22:3 - and they would not Mark 12:9 - he will Luke 8:12 - by Luke 13:24 - for Luke 13:34 - and ye Luke 14:24 - General John 7:34 - General Acts 13:41 - ye despisers Acts 24:25 - Go Acts 26:1 - stretched Hebrews 12:17 - he was Revelation 22:11 - that is unjust
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because I have called, and ye refused,.... This is to be understood not of the internal call of Wisdom, or Christ, which is by the special grace of his Spirit; is according to an eternal purpose, the fruit of everlasting love, peculiar to God's elect, and by a divine power; and is also a call to special blessings of grace, and to eternal glory; and which is always effectual, unchangeable, and irreversible, and can never be refused, rejected, and resisted, so as to become void and of no effect: but of the external call by the word, to the natural duties of religion, and to an attendance on the means of grace; which may be where no election goes before, no sanctification attends, nor salvation follows, Matthew 20:16; and this may be refused and rejected, as it often is; as when men, notwithstanding that call, do not attend on the ministry of the word, or, if they do, it is in a negligent careless way; or, they show an aversion to it, despise, contradict, and blaspheme it, as the Jews did, who were the persons first called to hear it; see Matthew 22:2;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; this is a gesture of persons calling to others, as orators and preachers, requiring silence and attention; and when eager and fervent, and importunate in their discourses; it is attributed to Christ, Isaiah 65:2; but, notwithstanding all Wisdom's eagerness, zeal, warmth, and importunity, expressed by words and gestures, it was all disregarded; no attention was given to it, which is here complained of.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The threats and warnings of Wisdom are also foreshadowings of the teaching of Jesus. There will come a time when “too late” shall be written on all efforts, on all remorse. Compare Matthew 25:10, Matthew 25:30.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:24. Because I have called — These and the following words appear to be spoken of the persons who are described, Proverbs 1:11-19, who have refused to return from their evil ways till arrested by the hand of justice; and here the wise man points out their deplorable state.
They are now about to suffer according to the demands of the law, for their depredations. They now wish they had been guided by wisdom, and had chosen the fear of the Lord; but it is too late: die they must, for their crimes are proved against them, and justice knows nothing of mercy.
This, or something like this, must be the wise man's meaning; nor can any thing spoken here be considered as applying or applicable to the eternal state of the persons in question, much less to the case of any man convinced of sin, who is crying to God for mercy. Such persons as the above, condemned to die, may call upon justice for pardon, and they may do this early, earnestly; but they will call in vain. But no poor penitent sinner on this side of eternity can call upon God early, or seek him through Christ Jesus earnestly for the pardon of his sins, without being heard. Life is the time of probation, and while it lasts the vilest of the vile is within the reach of mercy. It is only in eternity that the state is irreversibly fixed, and where that which was guilty must be guilty still. But let none harden his heart because of this longsuffering of God, for if he die in his sin, where God is he shall never come. And when once shut up in the unquenchable fire, he will not pray for mercy, as he shall clearly see and feel that the hope of his redemption is entirely cut off.
