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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 1:8-19

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 1:33

REFLECTIONS. READER! Is it indeed Jesus that thus crieth Without and uttereth his voice in the streets? And shall not you and I go to him, and attend to him, and listen with suitable earnestness of soul, to what this divine Teacher teacheth? Did all the earth seek to hear the wisdom of Solomon, were they gathered from every part of it to his court? and shall not we be earnest to receive instruction, when a greater than Solomon is here? Oh! thou, whose name is indeed Wisdoms! because nothing... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:1

Israel. The dignity of the author, and the importance of the subject, invite us to read. (St. Basil) --- Solomon is the first whose name is placed at the head of any work in Scripture. (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:2

To know. This is the design of these parables. (Calmet) --- They tend to instruct both the unexperienced and the wise, ver. 5. There are three sorts of wisdom: the divine, which is God himself; (chap. iii. 16.) the supernatural, which is his gift, to lead us into all virtue; and the worldly, which is mixed with error, &c. (Worthington) (Wisdom vii. 25.) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:5

CHAPTER I. Wiser. "Tamdiu audiendum & discendum est, quamdiu nescias, & si proverbio credimus, quamdiu vivas," says Seneca, ep. 77. --- Governments. And be fit to govern others, (Worthington) as well as himself. (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:6

Sayings. This science was much esteemed, 3 Kings x. l., and Ecclesiasticus xxxix. 2. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:7

Fear. Thus we arrive at charity. (St. Augustine, in ep. Jo. ix.; Job xxviii. 28., &c.) This fear includes religion, but not barren speculations. (Calmet) --- It implies a desire to act, and not simply to understand. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:8

Mother. The first precept is to learn of our elders, and the second to resist evil counsels, ver. 10. (Worthington) --- Our parents have the greatest influence over us. Solomon presupposes that they are virtuous and well informed. (Calmet) read more

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