Pro 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; Ver. 2. To know wisdom. ] That is, To give others to know; to wise them, as in Daniel 12:3 ; to give the knowledge of salvation; Luk 1:77 to show men "great and mighty things which they know not," Jer 33:3 but may here hence be taught better than out of Lipsius’s Beehive or Machiavel’s Spider web. read more
Pro 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; Ver. 3. To receive the instruction. ] Tertullian calls the Bible (and the Proverbs by a specialty) nostra digesta, from the lawyers; and others our pandects, a from them also. Is there not a thin veil laid over them, which is more ratified by reading, and at last wholly worn away? Surely as by much reading the statute book men grow worldly wise; and as a friend (it is Chrysostom’s comparison) that is acquainted... read more
Pro 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Ver. 4. To give subtilty. ] Serpentine subtilty, Gen 3:1 sacred sagacity, a sharp wit, a deep reach, a Spirit that "searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God," 1Co 2:10 and transformeth a man "into the same image from glory to glory." 2Co 3:18 Equidem scio multos esse qui hoc non credant, et non paucos qui ea rideant, nosque insanire arbitrentur, saith Peter Martyr, a sed istos rogatos velim, &c.:... read more
Pro 1:5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: Ver. 5. A wise man will hear. ] Hearing and seeing are by Aristotle called "the learned senses," because by these doors learning, yea, life, entereth into the soul. Isa 55:3 David Chytraeus, when he lay dying, lifted up himself to hear the discourses of his friends that sat by him, and said that he should die with better cheer if he might die learning something. a And will... read more
Pro 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. Ver. 6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation. ] Or, The sweetness thereof; there being nothing so sweet to a good soul as the knowledge of dark and deep mysteries. See Psa 119:103 where the same word is used. a The little book of the Revelation was in John’s mouth sweet as honey. Rev 10:9-10 See Trapp on " Rev 10:9 " See Trapp on " Rev 10:10 " And their dark sayings. ] Dark... read more
Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. Ver. 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning. ] Or, The chief and principal point a of wisdom, as the word here signified; yea, wisdom itself. Job 28:28 This Solomon had learned by the instruction of his father, as it is in the next verse, who had taught it him of a child, Pro 4:4 Psa 111:10 and therefore sets it here in the beginning of his works as the beginning of all. As in the... read more
Pro 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Ver. 8. Hear the instruction of thy father, &c. ] It is not fit to disobey God, thy father, nor thy teacher, saith Aristotle a Our parents, said Hierocles, are Yεοι εφεστιοι , our household gods: and their words should be received as oracles. This is a principal fruit of the fear of God, which it here fitly followeth: like as in the decalogue, the commandment for honouring of parents is set next of... read more
Pro 1:9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Ver. 9. For they shall be an ornament. ] "A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine." Ecc 8:1 Tum pietate gravem, &c. a Oυ το χρυσος ουτε αδαμας ουτως αστραπτει . b Neither gold nor precious stone so glittereth, saith Plato, as the prudent mind of a pious person. Nothing so beautifies as grace doth. Moses and Joseph were "fair to God," Act 7:20 and favoured of all men. A crown of gold, a chain of... read more
Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Ver. 10. If sinners entice thee. ] To an ill bargain; to a match of mischief, as Ahab did Jehoshaphat, as Potiphar’s wife would have done Joseph; and truly, that he yielded not, was no less a wonder, than that those three worthies burnt not in the midst of the fiery furnace. But as the sunshine puts out fire, so did the fear of God the fire of lust. Consent thou not. ] But carry a severe rebuke in thy counteuance, as God doth. Psa... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:1
Pro 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; Ver. 1. The Proverbs. ] Or, Master sentences; maxims, axioms, speeches of special precellence and predominance; received rules a that must overrule matters, and mightily prevail in the minds of men. The principal, no doubt, they are of those three thousand mentioned in 1 Kings 4:32 , and far beyond those golden sayings b of Phocylides (profanely preferred before those holy parables by that apostate Julian, ausu nefario ),... read more