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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of the book. It opens with an announcement that wisdom is making its appeal everywhere amid the busy activities of life. Then follows her call. This is, first, an appeal to men to attend (verses Pro 8:4-11 ). This they should do because wisdom speaks excellent things, and speaks in righteousness.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Prologue To The Book (Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18 ). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings’ that would follow. Those sayings would then be introduced by a subheading. Proverbs thus follows the usual precedent in having such a prologue in Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18, followed by general sayings in Proverbs 10:1 ff headed by a subheading (Proverbs 10:1). It was also common for such a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:5-13

2). Wisdom Calls On The Naive And On Fools To Pay Heed To Her Words Because Her Instruction Is Both True And Valuable (Proverbs 8:5-13 ). Wisdom’s words come especially to the naive and to ‘fools’ (compare Proverbs 1:22), that is to those who are still grappling with life without having any agenda, often at a loose end (compare Proverbs 7:7), and at the behest of any voice that speaks to them, and those who, while believing vaguely in God, live their lives apart from His will and direction... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:1-36

Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person.— This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1-Judges : with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 8:10

And not silver, i.e. rather than silver, as such negative expressions are understood, Genesis 45:8; Exodus 16:8; Jeremiah 7:22; Jeremiah 16:14,Jeremiah 16:15, and in many other places. Though withal he seems to intimate the inconsistency of these two studies and designs, and the great hinderance which the love of riches gives to the study of wisdom. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 8:10-11

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 8:11. Rubies, “pearls.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 8:10-11WISDOM BETTER THAN WEALTHI. Wisdom is to be preferred to wealth because it belongs to a higher sphere. The wisdom by which men succeed in finding gold and silver reveals the superiority of mind over matter. The apparatus of the miner or digger reveals that his thought, by which he is enabled to find the precious metal, is more than the metal itself. The precious stones which the merchant gains by... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:1-36

Chapter 8In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" ( Colossians 2:3 ). So there are analogies that can definitely be drawn. Because Christ is the soul, the heart of wisdom. "In Him all the treasures of wisdom." So there are definite analogies that can be made to wisdom and to Jesus Christ, and there... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 8:1-36

Proverbs 8:1 . Doth not Wisdom cry? This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God. See on chap. 3. Proverbs 8:3 . She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city. The gate was the usual place where the elders sat at proper times, and heard complaints. It is probable that the prophets often addressed the people in the area of the gate. Jeremiah delivered his... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 8:10

Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver.The commendation of wisdomI. Knowledge must be received.1. Do not refuse knowledge offered you in the Book of God.2. Do not refuse instruction offered you by God’s ministers.II. Knowledge must be received by way of instruction. Instruction is necessary, as it does not come by nature, and God does not teach it now by miracle.III. Knowledge must be more readily received than silver or gold. It can do that which gold and silver can never do. It... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 8:10

Pro 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Ver. 10. Receive mine instruction, and not money. ] That is, Rather than money; as, "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice" - that is, rather than sacrifice. Knowledge of the Scriptures is the greatest riches. "Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you." Col 3:16 The Corinthians were enriched in all knowledge. 1Co 1:5 Plato gave three hundred florins for a book that he liked. a Dionysius said that... read more